Others spoke only in whispers, fearful of aftershocks. Piles of rubble could be seen as darkness fell on the village, with the sound of women wailing in mourning. Fortunately the wall collapsed the other way, burying one of our buffalo," 23-year-old student Nabeel Hussain said. were sitting having a gossip when suddenly the earthquake shook us all. "It looked like the entire village tossed and turned and spun around." "I will never foreget the horrible sound" of the quake, another resident, Muhammad Ramzan, told AFP. "We are shelterless now," said one, Shamraiz Akhtar. In the village of Sahankikri, on the outskirts of Mirpur, residents said almost all the 400 houses were damaged. Television images showed cars wedged in to some cracks, while a bus and a truck lay by the side of the road. On one of the district's two main roads, AFP reporters could see cracks at least four feet (1.2 metres) deep, some filling with water from a nearby canal. The epicentre of the 5.2-magnitude quake was near the Kashmiri city of Mirpur, roughly 20 kilometres (12 miles) north of Jhelum in agricultural Punjab province, according to the US Geological Survey. ![]() With rescue operations expected to continue overnight, residents in the worst-hit areas described their horror as walls collapsed and houses fell. The quake sent people in Lahore and Islamabad running into the streets. At least 19 people have been killed and 300 injured after a shallow earthquake rattled northeastern Pakistan, tearing car-sized cracks into roads and heavily damaging infrastructure.
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