A severe earthquake shakes the Afghan-Pakistani border region.
Several people die and many are injured.
Islamabad - A major earthquake has shaken large parts of Afghanistan and Pakistan, as well as parts of India.
Several people died and many more were injured.
The quake on late Tuesday evening (local time) had a magnitude of 6.5, according to the US earthquake agency.
The epicenter was near the Afghan city of Jurm on the border with Pakistan and Tajikistan.
The tremors, which according to media reports lasted around 30 seconds, were also felt in other countries.
As
The Times of India
reports, people in northern India stormed the streets in panic.
According to reports from the Tagesschau
, the quake triggered
landslides in some mountain regions, which led to traffic delays.
Earthquakes in Afghanistan and Pakistan: many people injured
In Pakistan, local authorities in the northern province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa said at least nine were killed and more than 40 injured.
Several houses were also damaged.
The spokesman for the Afghan Ministry of Health Sharafat Saman spoke of a total of four dead and at least 70 injured across the country.
60 houses were destroyed there.
This is reported by the
German Press Agency (dpa).
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Rescuers unload earthquake victims from an ambulance at a hospital in Saidu Sharif, a town in Pakistan's Swat Valley.
A 6.5 magnitude earthquake struck large parts of Pakistan and Afghanistan on Tuesday, sending residents panicking and fleeing their homes and offices, even in remote villages in terror.
© Naveed Ali/dpa
According to the Pakistan Meteorological Authority, the earthquake in the capital Islamabad had a magnitude of 6.8.
The US earthquake monitor located the epicenter in the northern Afghan province of Badakhshan near the town of Jurm and gave the location a magnitude of 6.5.
According to local authorities, around 50 houses were damaged there.
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(hg/dpa/afp)
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