Islamabad, Feb 15: Fresh tremors jolted remote northern Pakistan today, one day after 20 people were killed in two earthquakes in the mountainous region. There was no immediate word of new casualties or damage from the latest jolts, police and local officials said.
''A few more jolts were felt today but we don't have any reports of casualties,'' police officer Ghulam Sarwar said from the district of Battagram, 110 km (68 miles) north of the capital Islamabad.
Three aftershocks registering 4.3 or below on the open-ended Richter Scale were recorded by the meteorological department in the northwestern city of Peshawar, a department official said.
Interior ministry official Javed Iqbal Cheema said 20 people were killed and scores injured when two earthquakes registering 5.7 and 5.5 on the Richter Scale convulsed the region yesterday. Bureau Report