LAHORE, Pakistan — More than 180 people were killed and hundreds were injured when a magnitude-7.5 earthquake centered in Afghanistan rocked neighboring Pakistan and rattled buildings as far away as India.
The U.S. Geological Survey said the epicenter of the quake was in the far northern Afghan province of Badakhshan, which borders Pakistan, Tajikistan and China.
At least 147 people were killed in northwestern Pakistan, the Associated Press reported. The Pajhwok news service in Afghanistan had the death toll in that nation at 51. Authorities warned that the tolls could climb in the coming hours and days.
"The devastation is going to be huge,” said Fazl Din, a doctor in Peshawar, about 25 miles from the Afghan frontier. “It is very difficult to reach the far flung villages. The governments of Pakistan and Afghanistan have no proper disaster management units."
