At least two people are dead in northern Pakistan and two in eastern Afghanistan after magnitude 6.5 earthquake strikes the region
Mahzudeen Ahmadi, the head of Badakhshan's information department told Reuters news agency they were also checking the province for any casualties, but had no reports yet.
Some of mountainous Badakhshan's remote villages can be difficult to reach and do not have access to phone or internet. "My brothers and sisters all ran outside . .. we live in a concrete house, those houses which are made from mud might have been damaged," he said. Shaking could be felt as far as the Indian capital, New Delhi. In Muzaffarabad, the capital of Pakistan-controlled Kashmir - the site of a deadly earthquake in 2005 in which more than 80,000 people were killed - people ran out of their homes, crying and reciting holy verses, according to a Reuters witness.
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