Five people killed in earthquake in Tajikistan
An earthquake in Tajikistan killed five people, the Tajik emergency situations committee said on Saturday, with the epicentre of the quake 165 kilometres northeast of the capital city of Dushanbe, according to Reuters.
The quake of magnitude 5.9 struck 27 km (17 miles) east of Rasht in Tajikistan, the European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC) said.
It was at a depth of 40 km and was also about 153 km south east of Khujand, Tajikistan, according to the EMSC.
According to head of the press centre of the Committee for Emergency Situations Umeda Yusufi, people died in the village of Langari Shoh in the Tojikobod region; two underage residents of the rural community of Hijborak in Rasht District were injured and later hospitalized, Sputnik said.
According to preliminary data,19 houses were damaged as a result of tremors in two villages at the epicentre of the earthquake.