Second Deadly Earthquake hits Pakistan Region 28th September.

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A powerful 6.8-magnitude earthquake hit southwest Pakistan on Sep. 28, killing at least 12 people in a region already devastated by a tremor which left more than 300 people dead this week, local officials said.

"At least 12 people have died and seven others wounded," Abdul Latif Kakar, head of the provincial disaster management agency told AFP.

Officials fear the death toll in the quake in Awaran, the poorest district in the southwest province of Baluchistan, could rise.

The new quake struck the remote district at a depth of 14 kilometres at 12:34 p.m. according to the US Geological Survey (USGS). Although USGS said it was an aftershock of the 7.7-magnitude quake on Sept. 24, an official at the National Seismic Centre of Pakistan classified it as a new earthquake. "It was not an aftershock, it was an independent earthquake," Zahid Rafi, director of the National Seismic Centre of Pakistan, told Geo TV.

Awaran, a district in the southwest province of Baluchistan, was shattered by the 7.7-magnitude quake on Sept. 24 which left 359 dead and more than 100,000 people homeless.
Attached: Taken in Awaran.

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