Strong earthquake hits Indian subcontinent
(AP/AFP)
Updated: 2005-10-08 15:10

Pakistani rescue workers survey the damages of a building after an earthquake in Lahore October 8, 2005. Scores of people were feared killed or trapped on Saturday after two buildings collapsed in Pakistan's capital following a major earthquake felt across the Indian subcontinent. The earthquake, with a magnitude of 7.6, struck at 0350 GMT and was centred in Pakistan-controlled Kashmir, about 95 km (60 miles) northeast of Islamabad. [Reuters] Pakistani rescue workers gather at a building damaged by an earthquake felt across the Indian sub-continent, Islamabad, October 8, 2005. Some 1000 were feared killed or trapped in two apartments blocks reduced to rubble in Islamabad by a major earthquake on Saturday centred 95 km (60 miles) northeast of the Pakistani capital. The two tower blocks contained 75 apartments, officials said. [Reuters]

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