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Residents in Pakistan's Balakot Thought Earthquake Jolted Them From Sleep
Residents in the quakeprone Balakot town in Pakistans KhyberPakhtunkhwa province on Tuesday said they were woken by loud explosions and thought a fresh tremor must have hit the region when the Indian Air Force jets pounded a large terror training camp
Balakot town in Pakistan's north-western Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province was destroyed during the 2005 Kashmir earthquake and was rebuilt with assistance from Saudi Arabia.
​Islamabad: Residents in the quake-prone Balakot town in Pakistan's Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province on Tuesday said they were woken by "loud explosions" and thought a fresh tremor must have hit the region when the Indian Air Force jets pounded a large terror training camp.
Balakot town in Pakistan's north-western Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province was destroyed during the 2005 Kashmir earthquake and was rebuilt with assistance from Saudi Arabia.
Residents in the mountainous area town told BBC Urdu they were woken by loud explosions.
Residents in several towns near Balakot reported hearing explosions early on Tuesday.
Mohammad Adil, a farmer in Jaba village, said he and his family were woken at about 03:00 by "a huge explosion".
He said they thought an earthquake must have hit the region.
"Then we heard jets flying over. We went to the place in the morning. There was a huge crater and four or five houses were destroyed," he said.
In a pinpointed and swift air strike, India pounded Jaish-e-Mohammed's biggest training camp in Pakistan early Tuesday in retaliation for the Pulwama terror attack in Jammu and Kashmir that killed 40 CRPF soldiers.
The pre-dawn operation, described as "non-military" and "preemptive", struck a five-star resort style camp on a hilltop forest.
Pakistan Army spokesman Major General Asif Ghafoor, however, said the strikes caused no casualties. He tweeted that Pakistani jets were scrambled and forced the Indian fighter planes to make a "hasty withdrawal", dropping their payload in an open area.
