At least eight people die after earthquake hits Afghanistan and Pakistan | World News

At least eight people died, and a child was injured, after an earthquake measuring 5.9 on the Richter scale struck parts of Afghanistan and Pakistan on Friday night.

The eight children killed and injured were all members of the same family and were involved in the house collapse, said Hafizullah Basharat, a spokesman for the Kabul governor.

The earthquake struck Afghanistan’s Hindu Kush region at a depth of 110 miles (177 km), according to the German Geoscience Research Center.

Provincial health authorities in the country have been alerted.

Strong tremors were also felt in Pakistan’s capital, Islamabad.

The region is very seismically active, with earthquakes causing thousands of deaths in recent years.

Last August, a 6.0 magnitude earthquake struck eastern Afghanistan killed more than 1,400 peopleand injured at least 3,250 others – destroying villages and trapping people under rubble.

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Most of the victims in the disaster were in Kunar province, where people usually live in houses made of wood and mud bricks along steep valleys.

In November, a 6.3-magnitude earthquake struck Samangan province in northern Afghanistan, killing at least 27 people and injuring more than 950.

Meanwhile in 2023, thousands of people died when a 6.3 magnitude earthquake followed by strong aftershocks rocked western Afghanistan.