AWARAN, Sept 28 (agencies): hit Saturday, killing a powerful 6.8-magnitude earthquake southwest of Pakistan at least 12 people in a region that is destroyed on the ground, of which more than 300 people dead said this week the local trembling officials.
"At least 12 people died and seven were injured," said Abdul Latif Kakar, head of the provincial disaster management agency AFP.
Officials fear that the death toll in Saturday earthquakes in Awaran, the poorest district in the southwestern province of Baluchistan, could rise.
The new quake struck the remote district Awaran, at a depth of 14 kilometres at 12:34 (0734 GMT) according to the US Geological Survey.
"There was no aftershock, it was an independent earthquake" Zahid Rafi, Director of the national seismic Center of Pakistan, geo TV said.
Awaran, which was the poorest district in the southwestern province of Baluchistan, was destroyed by a 7.7-brightness earthquake on Tuesday, the 359 deaths and more than 100,000 people homeless.
Relief efforts there have cheated by insurgent attacks on convoys of rescue, with local officials, who admits that teams were able to reach thousands of survivors in the worst affected areas.
An AFP reporter in the Awaran Saturday said: hundreds of patients treated in the aftermath of the previous Quake fled a hospital in panic as the new tremor hit.
Pakistan's Chief Meteorologist Arif Mehmood told Express News, that the extent of the Saturday quake 7.2 measured.
Deputy Commissioner of Awaran, said Abdul Rasheed Baloch geo TV that quake destroyed hundreds of mud houses in the area of Mashkey say that "a lot of people have caught under the rubble been".
"PBX was damaged and we are not in a position to speak with someone and find out the exact details of the losses..." But we have reports of heavy casualties in this area,"Baloch said.
Rescue operations in Mashkey, where the epicenter of the first quake was located, had already by rebel groups in the area complicated been, launched attacks on convoys have relief which, with local officials saying that some 30,000 survivors still waiting help.
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