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Powerful Earthquake Kills Scores in Afghanistan, Pakistan

HeadlineOct 26, 2015

A powerful 7.5-magnitude earthquake has struck northern Afghanistan with tremors felt as far away as Pakistan and northern India. Scores of people are reported dead with the toll expected to rise. Agence France-Presse reports at least 52 people have been killed in Pakistan alone. The Associated Press reports at least 12 students at a girls’ school in Afghanistan were killed in a stampede attempting to flee their shaking building. Aid groups are warning the damage could disproportionately impact people already displaced by violence in Afghanistan. In 2005, a 7.6-magnitude earthquake in the region killed more than 75,000 people.

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