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DW News
The US Geological Survey said the quake, which struck at around 1:40 p.m. local time (0910 UTC) on Monday, was 196 kilometers (121 miles) deep and its epicenter was 82 kilometers southeast of Feyzabad, in a remote area of Afghanistan in the Hindu Kush mountain range.At least 147 people died in Pakistan alone, officials said, with the figure expected to rise. Many areas remain inaccessible and it is expected that it will take days to asses the full extent of the devastation.
Within hours of the quake, the country's Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif urged authorities to utilize all resources to help any victims and ordered military to initiate rescue operations in the country's northern and northwestern regions.
Al Jazeera America
A powerful 7.5-magnitude earthquake struck northern Afghanistan on Monday, with massive tremors felt across Pakistan and India, leaving scores dead and hundreds more injured across the region.The total death toll stood at 249 with at least 185 people killed in Pakistan and at least 64 more in Afghanistan, according to official reports from the two countries.
The death toll could climb in coming days because communications were down in much of the rugged Hindu Kush mountain range area where the quake was centered.
The U.S. Geological Survey put the epicenter near Jarm in Afghanistan's northeast province of Badakhshan, 150 miles from the capital Kabul, but the effects were immediately being felt in India and Pakistan.
The Guardian
A major earthquake has hit Afghanistan, northern Pakistan and parts of India, with more than 150 killed and early reports suggesting it has caused extensive damage in mountainous areas.The magnitude 7.5 quake was centred in the province of Badakhshan in the Hindu Kush mountain range in Afghanistan’s far north, and occurred at a depth of 130 miles (210km). Officials said at least 147 people were known to have been killed in Pakistan and 33 in Afghanistan.
Twelve students were killed while trying to escape from a girls’ school in Taloqan, north-east Afghanistan, and six people died in the eastern province of Nangarhar. A police official in Badakhshan said dozens of houses were destroyed in two remote and sparsely populated rural districts, with some damage reported in Fayzabad.
Reuters
A major earthquake struck the remote Afghan northeast on Monday, killing more than 200 people in Afghanistan and nearby northern Pakistan, injuring hundreds and sending shock waves as far as New Delhi, officials said.The death toll could climb in coming days because communications were down in much of the rugged Hindu Kush mountain range where the quake was centered.
In one of the worst incidents, at least 12 girls were killed in a stampede to flee their school building in Taloqan, just west of Badakhshan province where the tremor's epicenter was located.
BBC
More than 260 people have died, mostly in Pakistan, after a magnitude-7.5 earthquake hit north-eastern Afghanistan.Tremors from the quake were also felt in northern India and Tajikistan.
At least 12 of the victims were Afghan schoolgirls killed in a crush as they tried to get out of their building.
The earthquake was centred in the mountainous Hindu Kush region, 76km (45 miles) south of Faizabad, the US Geological Survey reported.
The death toll is set to rise as the most severely affected areas are very remote and communications have been cut off.