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Monday 26 October 2015

Toll From Afghan Earthquake Rises to 46

The latest on a powerful earthquake in Afghanistan felt across South Asia.
An 80-year-old woman died of a heart attack in in the southern town of Bijbehara in Indian controlled Kashmir, officials said, while two Indian army soldiers were injured when a sentry post collapsed on them in the in the town of Sopore, police officer Imtiyaz Hussain said.

Zaheeruddin Qureshi, a senior rescue official, said at least one person was killed and another was injured when a wall of a home collapsed in Mirpur, a city in Pakistan's part of Kashmir. He said landslides triggered by the quake also disrupted normal traffic in various parts of Kashmir.
The deaths raise the toll from the earthquake to at least 45.

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