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October 8, 2005
Pakistan: India, Pakistan Afghanistan Struck by Massive Earthquake
This morning, at around 5.50 am GMT, a massive earthquake measuring 7.6 on the Richter Scale, hit from its epicentre 50 miles NNE of Islamabad, capital of Pakistan. It affected a large region through Northern India and into Afghanistan. A 10 storey apartment block in Islamabad collapsed, trapping people in wreckage, according to the Times.
Pakistani President General Pervez Musharraf and Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz directed federal and provincial officials to mobilise resources, ordered the military to extend all-out help to quake-hit areas and appealed to the nation to stay calm, the Information Ministry said in a statement. It described the quake as “one of the strongest to hit the country in recent years.”The tremors were also felt in Bangladesh. Britain's Foreign Office has announced it will be giving assistance. The Times states that 160 people have been declared dead, but France's Le Monde in a news udpate has said more than a thousand have already died. The article in Le Monde has pictures.
Posted by Giraldus Cambrensis at October 8, 2005 7:17 AM
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