A magnitude 6.5 earthquake struck northern Afghanistan on Tuesday evening, according to the European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre, killing two in the east of the country and one child in neighbouring Pakistan. The tremor was very deep, 194 km , and its epicentre was in the Hindu Kush mountain range, near the remote northern Afghan province of Badakhshan. Shaking was felt over an area 1,000km wide by approximately 285mn people in Pakistan, India, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Afghanistan and Turkmenistan.