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Tremors felt in Afghanistan and Pakistan Earthquake on Afghan-Tajik border shakes cities
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Reports of earthquake shaking buildings in Afghanistan and Pakistan, with tremors felt in India A magnitude 6.6 earthquake has been felt across a number of major cities across south-west Asia.
This breaking news story is being updated and more details will be published shortly. Please refresh the page for the fullest version. The earthquake struck in Afghanistan, close to its border with Tajikistan, at 10:28 GMT, according to the US Geological Survey (USGS).
If you want to receive Breaking News alerts via email, or on a smartphone or tablet via the BBC News App then details on how to do so are available on this help page. You can also follow @BBCBreaking on Twitter to get the latest alerts. There are reports the tremor was felt in Kabul, Lahore and in Delhi, forcing residents to leave their homes.
In October 2015, a magnitude-7.5 quake in the same border area killed close to 300 people.
The latest quake, in what is a sparsely-populated mountainous region, struck at a depth of 210km, the USGS reported. It was the same depth as the 2015 quake.
In Delhi, the metro train system was temporarily halted. The BBC's Sanjoy Majumder said a number of aftershocks were felt in the Indian capital.