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[h=4]Quake rocks Afghanistan, Pakistan; scores dead[/h]A magnitude7.5 earthquake struck northern Pakistan an Afghanistan on Monday, the U.S. Geological Survey said.
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The massive quake's epicenter was in northern Afghanistan, but tremors could be felt across several countries. VPC
People remove debris from a rickshaw on a road following an earthquake in Peshawar, Pakistan, on Monday, October 26, 2015.(Photo: Arshad Arbab, EPA)
LAHORE, Pakistan<span style="color: Red;">*</span>—<span style="color: Red;">*</span>More than 180 people were killed when a magnitude-7.5 earthquake centered in<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Afghanistan<span style="color: Red;">*</span>rocked<span style="color: Red;">*</span>neighboring Pakistan and rattled buildings as far away as<span style="color: Red;">*</span>India.
The U.S. Geological Survey<span style="color: Red;">*</span>said the epicenter of the quake was<span style="color: Red;">*</span>in the far northern Afghan province of Badakhshan, which borders Pakistan,<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Tajikistan and China.
At least 147<span style="color: Red;">*</span>people were killed<span style="color: Red;">*</span>in northwestern Pakistan,<span style="color: Red;">*</span>the Associated Press reported. The Pajhwok news service in Afghanistan had the death toll in that nation at 51. Authorities warned that the tolls could climb in the coming hours and days.
In Mingora, Pakistan, 50 miles from the Afghanistan border, schoolteacher<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Salma Khan said she was helping her pupils wrap up for the day when the ground shifted beneath her.
"Our first reaction was that maybe it is a terrorist attack,” Khan said. “We rushed to move the children out of the vicinity when we found out it was an earthquake."
Hundreds of miles from the epicenter, the quake rocked buildings in Rawalpindi, Pakistan.
"I was in my apartment on the third floor... <span style="color: Red;">*</span>and I literally felt death," Faisal Farooq, 28, told<span style="color: Red;">*</span>the<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Pakistani news website<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Dawn. "The building was moving like a swing. My legs are still shivering."
In Afghanistan's Takhar province, west of Badakhshan, at least 12 students were killed in a stampede <span style="color: Red;">*</span>at a girls’ school and at<span style="color: Red;">*</span>least five people died<span style="color: Red;">*</span>when homes collapsed in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province in Pakistan, the<span style="color: Red;">*</span>AP<span style="color: Red;">*</span>reported.
At least 194 injured people were taken to a hospital in the Swat district of Pakistan and over 100 were taken to a hospital in<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Peshawar, northern Pakistan, Dawn reported. Communications are down in much of the remote mountainous region and that the death toll was expected to climb.
"Many houses and buildings have collapsed in the city," <span style="color: Red;">*</span>Arbab Muhammad Asim, district mayor of Peshawar, told AFP.
I have asked for an urgent assessment and we stand ready for assistance where required, including Afghanistan & Pakistan.
— Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) October 26, 2015
People in the Afghan capital of Kabul, India's capital<span style="color: Red;">*</span>New Delhi and Pakistan's capital<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Islamabad reported feeling strong tremors. In Islamabad, walls swayed<span style="color: Red;">*</span>and people poured out of office buildings in a panic, reciting verses from the Quran, the AP said.
Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif<span style="color: Red;">*</span>asked authorities to use<span style="color: Red;">*</span>all resources to help any victims, and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi said he has<span style="color: Red;">*</span>asked for an urgent assessment.<span style="color: Red;">*</span>The quake caused widespread power outages and cut phone lines in Kabul, Dawn reported.<span style="color: Red;">*</span><span style="color: Red;">*</span>
Delhi's metro stopped running during the tremor.
"All of around 190 trains plying on the tracks were stopped at the time of the earthquake. The lines and the trains are now being restored after basic inspection of respective lines,"<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Delhi Metro spokesman Anuj Dayal<span style="color: Red;">*</span>told AFP.
In October 2005. a 7.6 magnitude earthquake in the Kashmir region rocked parts of Pakistan, India and Afghanistan,<span style="color: Red;">*</span>killing<span style="color: Red;">*</span>more than<span style="color: Red;">*</span>80,000<span style="color: Red;">*</span>people.
Onyanga-Omara reported from London; Bacon reported from McLean, Va.
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