The tremor was felt in the Afghan capital, Kabul, as well as a number of Pakistani cities, including Islamabad and Lahore. Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif asked the country’s disaster management officials to remain vigilant in the aftermath of the earthquake.Ī magnitude 6.5 earthquake has been felt across much of Afghanistan, Pakistan and parts of India.Īt least 3 people have been killed – two in Afghanistan and one in Pakistan according to police and officials ⤵️ Fifty-two people were injured in other parts of the province, officials said. Hospitals in the Swat Valley in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province treated at least 250 patients, 15 of whom suffered minor injuries and more than 200 were unconscious. “More than 20 buildings have suffered damages due to the jolts and scores of people have been injured,” he said. “A 10-year-old girl in Swat and a 24-year-old man in Lower Dir died when the walls of their houses collapsed,” Faizi told Al Jazeera.Īccording to Faizi, landslides have caused damage in the Swat district, 180km (112 miles) northwest of the capital Islamabad. Notable quake, preliminary info: M 6.5 – 40 km SSE of Jurm, Afghanistan īilal Faizi, a spokesperson for Pakistan’s Rescue 1122 service in the northwest of the country, and other officials told the Associated Press news agency that nine people were killed when roofs collapsed in various parts of northwestern Pakistan. Pakistan’s Meteorological Department put the magnitude slightly higher at 6.8 and later reported a 3.7 magnitude aftershock in the Hindu Kush region along the country’s border with Afghanistan. The quake was felt over an area more than 1,000km (621 miles) wide by some 285 million people in Pakistan, India, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Afghanistan and Turkmenistan, the European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre said. The earthquake’s epicentre was 40km (25 miles) southeast of the Afghan town of Jurm, near the borders with Pakistan and Tajikistan, the United States Geological Survey (USGS) said on Tuesday. In Afghanistan, at least four people were killed and 50 wounded, a health ministry official told the Reuters news agency. Hospitals in northern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province were put into a state of emergency overnight. In northwest Pakistan, at least nine people were killed and 44 injured, a government official said on Wednesday. At least 13 people have been killed and hundreds injured after a magnitude 6.5 earthquake hit areas across Afghanistan and Pakistan, with tremors felt as far as the Indian capital New Delhi.
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