DHAKA: A powerful 6.8-magnitude earthquake hit southwest Pakistan on Saturday, killing at least 12 people in a region already devastated by a tremor which left more than 300 people dead this week.

‘At least 12 people have died and seven were wounded,’ Mr Abdul Latif Kakar, head of the provincial disaster management agency told media, report The Straits Times.

Officials fear the death toll in Saturday’s quake in Awaran, the poorest district in the southwest province of Balochistan, could rise.

BDST: 2017 HRS, SEPT 28, 2013
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