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STORY: A powerful earthquake struck a border area of southeast Iran on Tuesday killing at least 35 people in neighboring Pakistan, destroying hundreds of houses and shaking buildings as far away as India and Gulf Arab states.
Communications with the sparsely-populated desert and mountain region were largely cut off, making it difficult to assess Iranian casualties. But an Iranian provincial governor later said there were no reports of deaths there so far.
Pakistani officials said at least 30 people were killed and 150 injured in the town of Mashkeel in the south-western Pakistani province of Baluchistan, which borders Iran.
Video footage shot by Reuters in Mashkeel on Thursday (April 18) showed collapsed buildings and debris strewn across the ground.
Pakistan's army said it had deployed troops and helicopters to ferry tents, medicines and medical teams to Mashkeel.
The U.S. Geological Survey, in a revised bulletin, s
