Death toll rises to 385 in Afghanistan earthquake

The death toll in the magnitude-7.5 earthquake that rocked Pakistan and Afghanistan rose to 385 on Wednesday.

Pakistan's National Disaster Management Authority said that 267 Pakistanis were killed, 220 of them in the northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. Afghanistan reported 115 dead, while three people died on the Indian side of the disputed region of Kashmir, the Associated Press reported.

Several aftershocks followed Monday's quake, which was centered in a remote area in Afghanistan that borders Pakistan, Tajikistan and China.

More than 10,000 homes were damaged in northwest Pakistan, while Afghan President Ashraf Ghani's office said that more than 7,600 homes were destroyed and 558 people injured in that country.

Pakistan's Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif ordered 2,000 tents to be sent to the affected areas. Army spokesman Lt. Gen. Asim Saleem Bajwa said that military aircraft were transporting relief supplies and work was underway to restore communications lines cut by landslides, Pakistani newspaper Dawn reported.

Residents in the town of Shangla in northwestern Pakistan, which was among the worst-affected by the quake, sought government help Wednesday to rebuild their houses.

Zurqun Nain, 70, said his extended family was living at a relatives' home after the quake damaged his house. "I had my own home before the earthquake. Now I am homeless at this old age," he said, according to AP.