Quake kills 30 Pakistani tribesmen.

NORTH WAZIRISTAN -- The earthquake that jolted the region in the early hours of Wednesday also claimed the life of at least 30 Pak-istani tribesmen, displaced from North Waziristan during a security operation, a footballer, and a soldier as it damaged a house in Lakki Marwat and a check-post in the Datakhel area.

Sources said the 30 victims belonged to the MadaA!khel tribe and were among the displaced persons who had shifted across the border to Afghanistan while OpeA!A!ration Zarb-i-Azb was underway in North Waziristan.

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They said the bodies of the 30 tribesmen would be shifted to their native areas after the Pakistani authorities temporarily opened the Pak-Afghan border at Alwar Mandi.

Besides, arrangements have also been made at the Ghulam Khan border for the transportation of the injured who, according to military sources in Miram-shah, would be airlifted to special medical camps being set up in the area.

Officials told Dawn that besides shifting the bodies and helping with the...