Indo Daily
October 26, 2015
SHAKE AND BLOW
Powerful quake rocks South Asia, 70 dead
Kabul (AFP) Oct 26, 2015
A powerful 7.5 magnitude killed at least 70 people as it rocked south Asia on Monday, including 12 Afghan girls who were crushed to death in a stampede as they tried to flee their collapsing school. Thousands of frightened people rushed into the streets across Afghanistan, Pakistan and India as the quake was felt across a swathe of the subcontinent. The quake was centred near Jurm in northeast Afghanistan, 250 kilometres (160 miles) from the capital Kabul and at a depth of 213.5 kilometres, the ... read more
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LAUNCH PAD

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