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The earthquake in Afghanistan and Pakistan leaves at least 12 dead

Tense night in Kabul, Afghanistan, where many citizens have decided to spend the night on the street, sleeping outside their homes, for fear of a new tremor.

This Tuesday, a magnitude 6.5 earthquake rocked Afghanistan and Pakistan—feeling also north of India—leaving at least 12 dead and more than 200 injured. Its epicenter was near the town of Jurm, on the border between Pakistan and Tajikistan and close to the enormous Hindu Kush mountain range, a center of great seismic activity.

In Afghanistan, “health centers have reported 3 deaths and 44 injuries” due to the earthquake, the spokesman for the Ministry of Health of the interim Taliban government told the media, Sharafat Zaman Amar.

According to the source, the three deaths in the provinces of Laghman (east) and Takhar (north) include a minor, while the injuries took place in various parts of the country.

The effects of the earthquake were also felt in Pakistan, where at least 9 people died in the northeastern province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, a spokesman for the provincial Disaster Management authority told Pakistani television Geo TV.

“It was a very strong earthquake and everyone took to the streets,” he says Masieh, Kabul resident. “Everyone was horrified, scared by the earthquake in Turkey and they hoped something like that wouldn’t happen in Kabul.”

“I had tents at home,” he says for his part Noor Ahmad Hanifi, shopkeeper of the capital. “We need them when we go with friends on a picnic. So now we are using them. One family is mine and the other two are my neighbors. Their families are here too. They are comfortable.”

The earthquake comes less than two months after the devastating 7.8 quake in Turkey and Syria that killed more than 51,000 people. At the end of last June, for its part, an earthquake of magnitude 5.9 in the Pakistani provinces of Paktika and Khost, resulted in the death of more than a thousand people and nearly 1,500 injuries.

Source: Euronews Español

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