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In the early hours of Thursday morning, a 5.7 magnitude earthquake occurred while people were sleeping.
Disaster Management Director Nasir Nasir said Thursday that at least 20 people were killed and more than 200 were injured in the earthquake in southern Pakistan.
In the early hours of Thursday morning, a 5.7 magnitude earthquake occurred while people were sleeping. Rescuers said that most of the dead were women and children.
The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) stated that the earthquake was relatively shallow, with the epicenter located at 20 kilometers 102 kilometers east of Quetta.
More than 100 mud houses collapsed and a large number of houses including government buildings were damaged. Sohail Anwar, deputy commissioner of Harnai City, told Reuters that hundreds of people were left homeless.
Social media showed that houses shook and lamps shook when the earthquake occurred, and the residents who later gathered on the street in the dark were shocked.
The wounded were taken to the hospital, while some were treated on stretchers in the street under the flashlight of the telephone.
A 7.7 magnitude earthquake occurred in Quetta in 1935, killing 30,000 to 60,000 people, making it one of the deadliest earthquakes ever hit South Asia.
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