Tuesday, April 16, 2013

Quake kills 34, injures 80 in Pakistan, sources say

People evacuate buildings in Karachi, Pakistan, following a powerful earthquake near the border with Iran on Tuesday, April 16.

http://www.cnn.com/2013/04/16/world/meast/iran-pakistan-earthquake/index.html?hpt=wo_c2

At least 34 people have died and 80 are injured in Pakistan after a powerful earthquake struck near the country's border with Iran, sources tell CNN.

Army doctors and Frontier Corps paramilitary forces are taking part in rescue efforts in Mashakel, according to a Pakistani official involved in relief efforts.

Officials earlier said that dozens more were injured in both countries.

Akbar Hussain Durrani, home minister of Pakistan's Balochistan province, confirmed that six people had died and more than a dozen were injured in the province's Washuk district.

The quake injured a dozen people in southeastern Iran, authorities said. They were treated at a hospital, the Crisis Management Office of Sistan and Baluchestan province reported. No one was killed, said Reza Arbabi, the office's director.

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