At least 19 people have died and hundreds were injured after an earthquake hit Pakistani-controlled Kashmir
Islamabad , officials said. The tremor tore through roads and shook buildings.
The city of New Mirpur was near the epicenter of the 5.8 magnitude quake, its District Inspector General of Police, Sardar Gul Faraz, said. Faraz told reporters that 300 people were injured, and at least 19 had been killed in the quake that hit at around 4 p.m. local time .Footage of the incident's aftermath showed uprooted trees and cars wedged into cracks created by the earthquake.
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