Wednesday, October 28, 2015

Death Toll Rises Above 375 in Afghanistan, Pakistan Earthquake

Officials worked Wednesday to rush aid to survivors of the Pakistan and Afghanistan earthquake that killed at least 385 people.
Afghani and Pakistani officials said 267 of those deaths occurred in Pakistan, while 115 have been confirmed dead in Afghanistan. The temblor was centered deep beneath the Hindu Kush mountains in a sparsely populated region of northeastern Afghanistan that borders Pakistan, Tajikistan and China.
Rescue crews were working to reach the villages near the epicenter, located 45 miles south of Fayzabad, the capital of Badakhshan province.

Pakistani villagers collect their belongings under the rubble of their homes destroyed from an earthquake in Shangla in Swat valley, Pakistan, Oct. 28, 2015.

http://www.wunderground.com/news/earthquake-afghanistan-pakistan

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