KABUL, Oct. 8 (Xinhuanet) -- A child was killed as a strong earthquake rattled parts of Afghanistan Saturday morning, authorities confirmed.

    "An 11 years old girl has lost her life as roof caved in on her in Surkhroad district of eastern Nangarhar province in the tremor," a senior official in provincial police department Ghafoor Khan told Xinhua.

    He also added that a number of mud houses collapsed in the neighboring Kama district but left no casualties.

    The tremble, strongly shook eastern parts of Afghanistan, was also felt in the north and northeast Balkh, Kunduz, Baghlan, Badakhshan and Takhar provinces but caused no loss on life.

    "Every thing is in order and we have not received any report of casualties so far," Interior Ministry spokesman Yusuf Stanikzai told Xinhua.

    Backing his information, authorities in the north and northeastprovinces have confirmed zero casualties except minor damage to mud houses in these areas.

    According to Hong Kong Observatory, the epicenter was initiallydetermined to be 34.4 north latitude and 73.5 east longitude, about 100 kilometers northeast of Islamabad, the capital of Pakistan. Enditem