Earthquake In India , Pakistan , Afghanistan

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70 Dead, Hundreds Injured as 7.5 Earthquake Hits North India, Pakistan, Afghanistan

 

 

 

 

 

A powerful earthquake of 7.5 magnitude centred in Afghanistan, has killed at least 70 people, including 12 Afghan schoolgirls who were crushed in a stampede as they tried to flee their collapsing school. The earthquake shook north India with tremors that lasted almost a minute.

At least 52 people, including eight children, have died in Pakistan.

The earthquake's epicentre was near Jurm in northeast Afghanistan, 250 km from capital Kabul, and at a depth of 213.5 kilometres, the US Geological Survey said. This is just a few hundred kilometres from the site of a 7.6 magnitude earthquake that struck in October 2005, killing more than 75,000 people and displacing some 3.5 million more, although that earthquake was much shallower.

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12 Schoolgirls Killed in Stampede After Afghan Earthquake: Officials

 

 

 

Al least 12 schoolgirls were killed kin a stampede that was triggered after a powerful earthquake jolted northeastern Afghanistan today, officials said, warning that the toll was expected to rise.

The girls were killed in the stampede in a school in Taluqan city when they were trying to escape the building.

"The students rushed to escape the school building, triggering a stampede," Takhar education department chief Enayat Naweed told AFP.

"Twelve students, all minors, were killed and 35 others were injured."

 

Thousands of frightened people rushed into the streets across Afghanistan, Pakistan and India as the quake rocked a swathe of the subcontinent.

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