Photos: Death toll rises after earthquake hits Afghanistan, Pakistan

Magnitude 6.5 earthquake in Afghanistan kills at least 12, nine of them in Pakistan

Published: March 22, 2023 10:15 Agencies

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At least 13 people were killed and more than 90 injured in Pakistan and Afghanistan after a magnitude 6.5 earthquake struck late on Tuesday, government officials said. Image Credit: Reuters

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At least nine people were killed and 44 injured in northwest Pakistan, a Pakistani government official said, and hospitals in northern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province were put into a state of emergency overnight. At least four people were killed and 50 injured in Afghanistan, a health ministry official there said. Image Credit: Reuters

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The quake was felt over an area more than 1,000 km wide by some 285 million people in Pakistan, India, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Afghanistan and Turkmenistan, the European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre said. Image Credit: AFP

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The epicentre was in the Kush mountains, in the sparsely populated northeastern Afghan province of Badakhshan, 40 km (25 miles) southeast of Jurm village, at the considerable depth of 187 km (116 miles), the U.S. Geological Survey said. Image Credit: AFP

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Shafiullah Rahimi, a spokesperson for Afghanistan's disaster mitigation ministry, said late on Tuesday that two people had been killed in the eastern province of Laghman. Image Credit: AP

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More than 200 people were brought to hospitals in the Swat valley and elsewhere in the region of Pakistan's northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province in a state of shock, Bilal Faizi, a spokesman for Pakistan's emergency services said. Image Credit: AP

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In Afghanistan, Sharafat Zaman Amar, Taliban’s appointed spokesman for the public health ministry said, so far at least two people died and around 20 others were injured in the earthquake in Afghanistan. The scene was repeated in Kabul and other parts of Afghanistan. Image Credit: AP

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