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A large earthquake rattled a remote mountainous region of northern Pakistan on Thursday, killing at least 25 people, officials said.
The pre-dawn temblor hit the Gilgit region, about 240 miles north of Peshawar, said Jehangir Khan, an official with the Ministry of Kashmiri Affairs in Islamabad. Aftershocks rumbled for several hours. The U.S. Geologic Survey in Golden, Colo., said the earthquake measured 5.8, and put the epicenter at about 30 miles south-southeast of Gilgit, in the Himalayan foothills.
“We are expecting the casualties may rise,” Khan said. “We do not have a number for the injured.”
