A strong earthquake jolt Pakistan, Afghanistan, India

A strong earthquake jolt Pakistan, Afghanistan, India 

A strong earthquake jolt Pakistan, Afghanistan, India and Emirates More than 275 individuals  are reported to be killed in Pakistan and hundreds harmed when a size 7.5 tremor focused in Afghanistan shook neighboring Pakistan and shook structures as far away as India.

The U.S. Topographical Survey said the epicenter was in the far northern Afghan territory of Badakhshan, which outskirts Pakistan, Tajikistan and China.

In Pakistan, the leader of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Provincial Disaster Management Agency, Amer Afaq, told Reuters the loss of life came to 167. Military representative General Asim Bajwa said about 1,000 were harmed.

In Afghanistan, the loss of life was at 51, the Pajhwok news administration reported. The Afghan loss of life included 12 school young ladies who kicked the bucket in a charge escaping their influencing school in Takhar Province.

Powers cautioned the loss of life could move in the coming hours and days as harm is remote towns is found.

"The obliteration will be tremendous," said Fazl Din, a specialist in Peshawar, around 25 miles from the Afghan boondocks. "It is exceptionally hard to achieve the far-flung towns. The legislatures of Pakistan and Afghanistan have no appropriate fiasco administration units."

Pakistan's Information Minister Pervez Rashid said common and military powers were attempting to achieve every one of those influenced by the tremor. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi offered help to Pakistan, in spite of the fact that Rashid said his nation of more than 180 million individuals doesn't plan to look for assistance from different countries, the AP reported.

"We have enough assets to handle the circumstance," Rashid said.

The shake created far reaching force blackouts and cut telephone lines in Kabul, the Pakistani daily paper Dawn reported.

In Afghanistan's Baghlan's region north of the capital of Kabul, development specialist Mir Omarkhil, 32, said his 11-year-old child lost a leg to the tremor.

"He was playing outside when the earth shook," Omarkhil said. "He got himself under a building for assurance. That cost him his left leg."

Rashid Khan Haider, 54, a society artist from Parwan close Kabul, said he fled his home minutes before it crumpled. At the point when the shake started, he thought a terrorist assault was in progress, he said.

"Inside of couple of minutes I got the thought that it is something else," he said. "On account of Allah that we are sheltered, however our home was destroyed like a place of cards