PTI
KABUL
At least 12 people were injured in Afghanistan's eastern Nangarhar province after an earthquake jolted the country just before midnight Friday, officials said on Saturday.
A number of Nangarhar University students in the provincial capital, Jalalabad, were injured during a stampede while trying to run out of a building during the quake, said Attaullah Khogyani, spokesman for the provincial governor.
The magnitude 6.2 quake struck at around 11:45 p.m. on Friday and lasted about a minute. It was also felt in the capital, Kabul, sending residents rushing into the street for safety.
The U.N.'s Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said two regions of Afghanistan were affected - east and north-east - but the expected impact was "small to medium scale."
The quake's epicenter was in the Zebak district of Badakhshan province in the country's north, but no casualties or damage from the area had been reported, OCHA said.
