From recent reports it is known also that in Afghanistan there were 52 dead in several provinces; 12 students in Takhar, 7 people in Nangarhar, Nuristan 2, 22 in Kunar and Badakhshan 9. While in Pakistan reported at least 167 dead and nearly 1,000 injured.
The number of deaths may increase with each passing day, because communication lines have been out of order most of the territory of the rugged mountainous region of Hindu Kush, where was the epicenter of the quake.
In what is considered one of the sadder incidents, at least 12 girls were killed while fleeing in disarray under (pressure) from the building of their school in Taloqan, in the west of the province of Badakhshanit, which was exactly the epicenter of tremors.
"They fell between the legs of the other students," said Abdul Razaq Zinda, the provincial head of the Afghan National Agency of Disaster Management, which reports to more severe damage Takhar.
Shocks were felt in New Delhi, the northern region of India, and around the north of Pakistan, where hundreds of people came from residential buildings or businesses after the tremors. However, still no reported fatalities in India.
"We were very scared. We saw people fleeing from buildings, but we are grateful to the Lord, "said a Pakistani journalist, Zubair Khan, while speaking by telephone from Swat Valley, northwest of the capital Islamabad. "I was in my car and when I stopped, the car itself was shaking as if it was someone pushing from the front and from behind."
The quake was 213 kilometers deep in the earth's crust and its epicenter 254 km northeast of Kabul, in Badakhshan province. The US Geological Service initially announced that he was magnitude 7.7 but later downgraded to 7.5.
Just a decade ago, another 7.6-magnitude earthquake hit another region of northern Pakistan, killing over 75 thousand people.
