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Earthquake in SW Pakistan kills 27 - officials

Tue Oct 28, 2008 10:29pm EDT
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Oct 29 (Reuters) - Twenty-seven people were killed and about 40 injured when a strong earthquake struck southwest Pakistan on Wednesday, a district chief and hospital officials said.

"Two areas are badly hit," said Dilawar Khan, chief of the Ziarat district in Baluchistan province. Some houses had collapsed and 11 people were killed in one area and 14 in another he said. Another official said two people were killed in Pishin district. (Reporting by Gul Yousafzai and Saeed Ali Achakzai; Editing by Robert Birsel and Valerie Lee)


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