ISLAMABAD, Pakistan: Three persons including two women and a child were killed after an earthquake measuring 5.5 on the richter scale jolted Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Abbottabad district in the early hours of Saturday.
The epicenter of the earthquake was 23 kilometers northeast of Islamabad at a depth of 10 kilometers, according to the Pakistan Meteorological Department (PMD).
The police officials said that the casualties took place in Narra area of Havelian tehsil where two women and a nine-year-old child were killed when their house collapsed due to quake.
A six-year-old girl was also injured in the incident.
“A house built of mud in the outskirts of Abbottabad collapsed due to the earthquake, leaving two women and a young boy dead and a minor girl injured,” a senior police official Sher Akbar Khan said.
The earthquake was also felt in Islamabad, Rawalpindi and some other parts of Punjab as well as Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
On the other hand, a magnitude 5.7 earthquake struck Indonesia’s Java Island early Saturday, according to the country’s National Disaster Mitigation Agency spokesman Sutopo Purwo Nugroho.
However, there were no immediate reports of significant damage, according to the spokesman.
