Earthquake hits Pakistan, neighbors

Islamabad, Pakistan A powerful 7.6-magnitude earthquake rocked parts of Pakistan, India and Afghanistan today, injuring at least a dozen people.

Part of a 19-story building collapsed in the Pakistani capital.

Rescue workers were on the scene of the collapse in Islamabad, and at least two injured people were carried from the debris.

In the Pakistani city of Lahore, at least eight people were injured and four shops were damaged, police said. The earthquake also damaged part of a school in Rawalpindi, near Islamabad, injuring at least two girls.

U.S. military spokesman Lt. Col. Jerry O’Hara said the quake was felt at Bagram, the main American base in Afghanistan.

The U.S. Geological Survey said on its Web site the quake hit at 8:50 a.m. local time. It was centered 58 miles north-northeast of Islamabad at a depth of about six miles.

Arif Mahmood, a seismological official in the northwestern city of Peshawar, said the earthquake was felt in much of Pakistan.

Panicked people ran out of homes and offices in many cities.

Local television said the quake caused panic in Islamabad, as well as nearby Rawalpindi, Lahore, Peshawar and Quetta near the Afghan border.

It also frightened residents of the disputed Himalayan territory of Kashmir.

Five Serbs charged in taped executions

Belgrade, Serbia-Montenegro Serbia’s war crimes prosecutors filed charges Friday against five Serb paramilitaries who appeared in a video showing the execution of six Srebrenica Muslims.

The five, members of the notorious Scorpions unit, are charged with war crimes against civilians committed on July 17, 1995, near the town of Trnovo, at the foot of Mount Treskavica, about 12 miles south of Sarajevo.

The prisoners were forced into a truck and driven to a hilly roadside, where four of them were lined up with their hands tied and executed. Two remaining prisoners were ordered to carry the bodies to a burnt-out cottage, where they too were executed, the indictment said.

Police: Man had home full of smuggled artifacts

Rome Hundreds of smuggled artifacts were found at the museum-like home of an elderly Austrian tour guide believed to have taken the objects from clandestine excavations near the Italian capital, police said Friday.

The 82-year-old guide, known as “Mozart” in the art trafficking world, was issued a citation because of his advanced age, police said.

Carabinieri police Col. Ferdinando Musella said most of about 600 illegally excavated artifacts dating from between the 8th century B.C. and the 5th century A.D. were found in the home of the guide. “His house was just like a museum, with objects on display and ready to be sold,” Musella said. Some of the artifacts at the home in the Austrian town of Linz even had price tags, authorities said.