At least 13 dead in the earthquake in Afghanistan and Pakistan
At least 13 people lost their lives and more than 90 were injured in the 6,5-magnitude earthquake in Afghanistan and Pakistan, government officials said today.
At least nine people were killed and 44 injured in northwest Pakistan, a Pakistani government official said, while at least four people were killed and 50 injured in an earthquake in Afghanistan.
Houses and buildings were damaged in both countries.
The earthquake was felt more than 1.000 kilometers away, in an area home to about 285 million people in Pakistan, India, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Afghanistan and Turkmenistan, the European-Mediterranean Seismological Center said.
The epicenter was in the Hindu Kush Mountains, in the sparsely populated northeastern Afghan province of Badakhshan, at a depth of 187 kilometers.