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At least three people were killed when a 5.1-magnitude earthquake struck northern parts of Pakistan early on Saturday, officials said.
The United States Geological Survey said the tremors struck at a relatively shallow depth of 26 kilometres with its epicentre located 15 kilometres to the northeast of Islamabad.
The tremor was also felt in federal capital Islamabad and adjoining cities.
A government official in Abbottabad, around 50km from Islamabad, said two women and a nine-year-old child were killed when their house collapsed.
"A house built of mud on the outskirts of Abbottabad collapsed due to the earthquake, leaving two women and a young boy dead and a minor girl injured," senior police official Sher Akbar Khan said.
The women were aged 25 and 48 and the boy nine. The injured girl was about six, Khan said.
The quake was felt in several cities in Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Ghulam Rasul, a senior meteorologist at the Meteorological Department, said.
Residents of the Pakistani capital reported buildings and vehicles shaking after the quake hit at 1.59am local time.
Local meteorologists measured the quake at 4.6 magnitude with a depth of just 10 kilometres.
Pakistan straddles part of the boundary where the Indian and Eurasian tectonic plates meet, making the country susceptible to earthquakes.
It was hit by a 7.6-magnitude quake on October 8, 2005 that killed more than 73,000 people and left about 3.5 million homeless, mainly in Pakistan-controlled Kashmir.
A 7.7-magnitude earthquake devastated several areas in southwestern Balochistan province in September 2013, killing at least 370 people and leaving 100,000 homeless.
news@khaleejtimes.com
(With input from AFP)
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