The scene was repeated in Kabul and other parts of Afghanistan. Zaman Amar said “Unfortunately, there could be more casualties as the quake was so powerful, in most parts of the country” all hospitals and health facilities are ready to save lives of people, he added. In Afghanistan, Sharafat Zaman Amar, Taliban’s appointed spokesman for the public health ministry said, so far at least two people died and around 20 others were injured in the earthquake in Afghanistan.

Media reports suggested cracks had appeared in some apartment buildings in the city. The powerful tremors sent many people fleeing their homes and offices in Pakistan’s capital of Islamabad, some reciting verses from the Quran, Islam’s holy book. “We are still collecting data about the damages,” he said. Taimoor Khan, a spokesman for the provincial disaster management authority in the northwest, said at least 19 mudbrick homes collapsed in remote areas. The nine people who died in northwest Pakistan included five men, two women and two children. The earthquake triggered landslides in some of the mountainous areas, disrupting traffic.

Dozens of others were injured in the quake, which was centered in Afghanistan and also felt in bordering Tajikistan. Faizi said most were later discharged from the hospital.įaizi and other officials said nine people were killed when roofs collapsed in various parts of northwestern Pakistan. “These terrified people collapsed, and some of them collapsed because of the shock of the earthquake,” he said. More than 200 people were brought to hospitals in the Swat valley and elsewhere in the region of Pakistan’s northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province in a state of shock, Bilal Faizi, a spokesman for Pakistan’s emergency services told The Associated Press. At least nine people died in Pakistan and two in Afghanistan, officials said Wednesday ISLAMABAD (AP) - A magnitude 6.5 earthquake rattled much of Pakistan and Afghanistan on Tuesday, sending panicked residents fleeing from homes and offices and frightening people in remote villages.

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