An earthquake in the Pamir mountains of Tajikistan has destroyed hundreds of homes, leaving some 10,000 people without shelter in the dead of winter, officials said Sunday.
"According to preliminary information, 300 houses have been destroyed," a regional spokesman for the country's Civil Defence Committee responsible for the affected area told AFP. Some 10,000 people have been left without shelter as scores of other homes have been damaged, the spokesman said, citing preliminary information. Two schools, a clinic and a power line have also been destroyed, he added.
The spokesman reported no deaths but said dozens of sheep and goats were killed in the earthquake that struck around ten high-altitude villages in the Pamir mountains in eastern Tajikistan on Saturday.