Two persons have died in Jammu and Kashmir after a tremor hit the region past midnight triggering panic amid sub-zero temperatures. Many residents abandoned their dwellings in horror but had to return due to intense cold.
A baker Syed Younis Shah, 42, a resident of north Kashmir’s Baramulla district suffered cardiac arrest after 6.5-magnitude earthquake jolted the region. He was putting up at his factory in Ganderbal district.
Shah was rushed out but collapsed outside due to heart attack. Earlier, Zahid Ahmad, a resident of Gulatha Harni in Mendhar region of Poonch district in Jammu also died due to shock during the earthquake.
At least 40 residential houses and four Government school buildings suffered damage in Karnah and Tanghdar areas in Kupwara district due to the tremor.