“A powerful earthquake has struck remote north-east Afghanistan, killing more than 200 people in the country and nearby northern Pakistan and sending shock waves as far as New Delhi.
“Hundreds more were injured as the magnitude 7.5 quake shook a swathe of the subcontinent, reducing buildings to rubble and sending terrified people into the streets as the ground rolled beneath them.
“At least 52 people were reported dead in several provinces in Afghanistan.
“In Pakistan, the head of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Provincial Disaster Management Agency, Amer Afaq, said the death toll had reached 167.
“Pakistan’s military spokesman General Asim Bajwa said nearly 1,000 were injured.”
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