At least two people have been killed and hundreds injured in northern Pakistan after a magnitude 6.5 earthquake hit areas across Afghanistan and Pakistan, with tremors felt as far as the Indian capital New Delhi, Al Jazeera news reported.
The earthquake’s epicentre was 40km (25 miles) south-southeast of the Afghan town of Jurm, near the borders with Pakistan and Tajikistan, the United States Geological Survey (USGS) said on Tuesday.
Separately, Pakistan’s Meteorological Department put the magnitude slightly higher at 6.8, and later reported a 3.7 aftershock in the Hindu Kush region along the country’s border with Afghanistan.
At least two people, including a child, were killed in Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province as a result of the earthquake, rescue officials have told Al Jazeera.
“A 10-year-old girl in Swat, and a 24-year old man in Lower Dir died when the walls of their houses collapsed,” Bilal Faizi, spokesperson for the Rescue 1122 service in the northwestern province, told Al Jazeera.
According to Faizi, landslides have caused damage in Swat district, 180km (112 miles) northwest of the capital Islamabad.
