(MEDIA GENERAL/AP) – Multiple news sources in Afghanistan and India have reported a large earthquake has struck the region.
The U.S. Geological Survey’s web site said the earthquake measured in as a Magnitude 7.5. The earthquake’s epicenter was 45 kilometers south by southwest of Jarm, Afghanistan.
Reporters from the BBC stationed within the region have said power is out in some areas of Kabul, Afghanistan, while phone lines are out in Lahore, Pakistan. There were no immediate reports of major damage.
A rescue official in northwestern Pakistan told The Associated Press that the quake was felt across the region and caused at least five deaths. Mohammad Bilal says another 100 people were wounded in home collapses in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province after Monday’s earthquake.
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State-run Pakistani TV had earlier reported that someone had died when the roof of a home collapsed in the eastern city of Kasur.
In Afghanistan’s Takhar province, west of Badakahshan, at least 12 students at a girls’ school were killed in a stampede as they tried to get out of the shaking buildings, a local official says. Sonatullah Taimor, the spokesman for the Takhar provincial governor, says another 30 girls have been taken to the hospital in the provincial capital of Taluqan.
Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has asked authorities to utilize all resources to help any victims of the earthquake.
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