Quake toll climbs to 2,000 - including 250 schoolgirls

The death toll in the powerful 7.6-magnitude earthquake near the Pakistan-India border climbed to more than 2,000 today and included 250 girls who were crushed by rubble when their school collapsed.

The quake reduced villages to rubble, triggered landslides and flattened an apartment building, killing more than 2,000 people in both nations.