(27 Oct 2015) Rescuers are struggling to reach quake-stricken regions in Pakistan and Afghanistan as the combined death toll from the previous day's earthquake rose to 311, officials said on Tuesday.
According to Afghan and Pakistani officials, 237 people died in Pakistan and 74 in Afghanistan in the magnitude-7.5 quake, which was centered deep beneath the Hindu Kush mountains in Afghanistan's sparsely populated Badakhshan province bordering Pakistan, Tajikistan and China.
In Pakistan, authorities said they are struggling to reach remote mountainous quake-affected areas.
In the northwestern Swat Valley area, the clear up has begun in the area's main town, Mingora.
The area was badly damaged in the earthquake and more than a hundred people have been treated at a local hospital, where 13 people have also died, according to a deputy medical superintendent.
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