Rescue teams are facing severe challenges to reach Jatlan and shift bodies and injured to hospitals because three road link to the town have been disconnected due to severe damages.
Minister for Youth and Culture of Pakistan-controlled Kashmir Muhammad Saeed told Xinhua that serious damages have done to the infrastructure, communication network and electricity supply, which has disrupted daily life in the district.
Several buildings have been collapsed in Jatlan town, three bridges linking the town with other areas suffered serious cracks and at least two-km long road skidded into a canal, said the minister, adding that several vehicles moving at the road adjacent to a canal fell and drowned into the canal.
An eyewitness from Mirpur named Atiq-ur-Rehman told Xinhua that big cracks have appeared at roads in the district, which have disrupted traffic flow.
Dozens of houses and shops have been completely collapsed while hundreds of others suffered damages in the district, reported local media, adding that a hostel building of a medical college also collapsed in Mirpur and killed one student when he jumped from the roof of the trembling building.
Several villages inundated after a bank of the canal was broken, but authorities stopped water supply to the canal and moved villagers to safe places.
Pakistan’s Water and Power Development Authority (WAPDA) announced that all the turbines of the Hydropower Station Mangla established at the River Jhelum near Mirpur were closed after the earthquake. However, WAPDA added that the power station and the water reservoir remained safe in the earthquake.
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