{"id":1371,"date":"2021-10-07T06:30:02","date_gmt":"2021-10-07T06:30:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/?p=1371"},"modified":"2021-10-07T06:30:04","modified_gmt":"2021-10-07T06:30:04","slug":"at-least-20-dead-after-magnitude-5-9-earthquake-strikes-southwest-pakistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/asia\/paksitan\/at-least-20-dead-after-magnitude-5-9-earthquake-strikes-southwest-pakistan\/","title":{"rendered":"At least 20 dead after magnitude 5.9 earthquake strikes southwest Pakistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\"><blockquote><p>Over 300 people injured according to initial estimates, says Pakistan National Seismic Surveillance Center<\/p><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>ISLAMABAD,  Oct 7 (AA): At least 20 people were killed and more than 300 injured when a magnitude 5.9 earthquake struck Pakistan\u2019s southwestern Balochistan province early on Thursday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The National Seismic Monitoring Center (NSMC) said the earthquake was centered near Harnai district and had a depth of 15 kilometers (9.32 miles).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The NSMC reported that the quake occurred at around 3.20 a.m. local time (Wednesday 2220GMT) and was also felt in the cities of Quetta, Sibbi, Pishin, and Chaman.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to local media reports, 20 people, six of them children, were killed and more than 300 injured.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Many homes were damaged, while landslides also occurred in some areas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Still, many people are under the debris as dozens of houses collapsed in the area,&#8221; the deputy commissioner of Balochistan province told Anadolu Agency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Security forces, troops, and rescue workers have reached the earthquake-hit areas to conduct rescue and relief efforts, added Suhail Anwar Hashmi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, the army has also deployed teams of doctors and paramedics to assist the civil administration for necessary medical care.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a statement, the media wing of the military said that nine critically injured people had been airlifted to the provincial capital Quetta via army helicopters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Authorities have reached Harnai for damage assessment and response, while a search and rescue team is being flown in from the city of Rawalpindi to help reinforce local teams, it added.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over 300 people injured according to initial estimates, says Pakistan National Seismic Surveillance Center ISLAMABAD, Oct 7 (AA): At least 20 people were killed and more than 300 injured when a magnitude 5.9 earthquake struck Pakistan\u2019s southwestern Balochistan province early on Thursday. The National Seismic Monitoring Center (NSMC) said the earthquake was centered near Harnai [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":1372,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,82],"tags":[293,657,193,658,659,65],"class_list":["post-1371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest","category-paksitan","tag-balochistan","tag-dead","tag-earthquake","tag-injured","tag-nsmc","tag-pakistan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1371"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1371\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}