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Pak. toll 20

By B. Muralidhar Reddy

ISLAMABAD, JAN. 27. The toll in the earthquake on Friday that affected parts of the Sindh province in Pakistan has risen to 20 and authorities expect it to go up once the situation in the interior parts of Sindh is known.

The epicentre of the earthquake was 300 km southeast of Karachi in the fault zone of Rann of Kach. The quake recorded 6.5 on the Richter scale by the Peshawar Seismological Centre. In Pakistan, the quake was felt in Karachi, Hyderabad, Multan, Lahore, Peshawar and Quetta.

According to reports in the Pakistani media, maximum impact of the quake was felt in the Hyderabad and Mirpurkhas divisions of Sindh province.

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