QUETTA: The death toll in earthquake in various parts of Balochistan has reached to 95, sources said. Dozens reported wounded in the Wednesday morning temblor in the southwestern province of Pakistan.A foreign news agency citing a government official has said that at least 80 people have been killed in the earthquake.The U.S. Geological Survey reports the quake had a preliminary magnitude of 6.4. It was centered about 400 miles southwest of the capital, Islamabad.In Ziarat 25 dead bodies have been found from the landslides caused by the tremors, which jolted Balochistan here early Wednesday morning.Strong earthquake jolted Quetta and it’s vicinity with magnitude 6.5 at Richter scale. People of the area flee out of their homes in panic and started praying as the temblor shook the earth. Several houses were collapsed in some affected areas.Initial reports suggest that areas of Quetta, Sibi, Bolan, Chaman, Mastung, Qilla Abdullah and Qalat were trembled in the seismic activity. The epicentre of the quake was said to be 500 km away from Peshawar, capital city of NWFP.The quake struck just after 4 a.m. in Balochistan, an impoverished province bordering Afghanistan. Pakistan is prone to violent seismic upheavals. In October 2005, a magnitude-7.6 quake devastated Kashmir and northern Pakistan, killing about 80,000 people and leaving hundreds of thousands homeless.
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