Severe earthquake in Afghanistan: More than 250 dead on the border with Pakistan
Created: 06/22/2022, 09:04
A girl looks out of her home in the Afghan village of Kamar Kalagh.
© Petros Giannakouris/AP/dpa
Earthquake in Afghanistan: Late Tuesday evening, the earth trembled on the border of Afghanistan and Pakistan.
The terrain is remote, and information about damage and casualties is sparse.
Kabul/Islamabad - At least 255 people died in a violent earthquake late Tuesday evening (local time) in the Afghan-Pakistani border region.
According to official information, another 155 people were injured in Paktika province in eastern Afghanistan.
This was reported by the state news agency Bakhtar on Wednesday.
A spokesman for the ruling Taliban also spoke of dozens of destroyed houses in four affected districts of the province bordering Pakistan.
Local media reported that one village was completely destroyed.
Earthquake in Afghanistan: The US earthquake observatory reports magnitude 5.9
The US earthquake monitoring station (USGS) reported the magnitude of the quake shortly before 11 p.m. on Tuesday (local time) as 5.9 and a slightly weaker aftershock.
Accordingly, the center of the earthquake was around 50 kilometers southwest of the city of Khost near the border with Pakistan at a depth of around ten kilometers.
Pakistani authorities registered the earthquake with a magnitude of 6.1.
Earthquake in Afghanistan: Tremors felt in Pakistan's capital, Islamabad
According to Pakistani information, the tremors were felt in large parts of the neighboring country - including in the capital Islamabad and even in Lahore in the east of the country.
Panic broke out in some places, but according to initial information, nothing was known about damage or injuries in Pakistan.
According to the civil protection authority, local emergency services tried to gain access to the affected remote mountainous region.
(dpa/kat)