JUST IN -- earth quake hits Pakistan kills 19, and left dozens injured.

At least 19 people were killed and 300 injured after the shallow quake rocked north-eastern Pakistan, a senior police officer said, with the tremor tore cracks sized cars to highly damaging roads and infrastructure.

The quake sent people in cities across the country walked out into the streets, like a car near the epicenter that is sandwiched between large cracks that ripped road while other vehicles were toppled by the quake.

SR 5.2 earthquake epicenter was near the town of Mirpur Kashmir, about 20 kilometers (12 miles) north of Jhelum in the Punjab province of agriculture, according to data released by the US Geological Survey.

In one of the two main roads district, an AFP reporter could see cracks at least four feet deep, some filled with water from a nearby canal.

Ambulances could be seen, but the Pakistani army to prevent further travel. Military deployed "aviation and medical support" team along with the troops to the affected areas in Kashmir, according to his spokesman.

Television footage showed the car was stuck in some cracks, as well as bus and truck lay on their sides on the edge of the road.

"At least 19 people were killed and over 300 injured," said Sardar Gulfaraz, deputy inspector general of police in Mirpur, in televised comments.

However, the chairman of the National Disaster Management Authority provides a lower toll at a news conference in Islamabad.

"I can confirm 10 deaths and the number of injured is 100," said the chairman Lieutenant General Mohammad Afzal, adding that he had received reports of casualties higher.

"It is under control," he said, adding that the nearby Mangla Dam, one of the two main water reservoirs of Pakistan, are not affected by the earthquake.

The prime minister of Pakistan Kashmir, Raja Farooq Haider Khan, told reporters that the infrastructure had been "destroyed".

Road, cellular phone towers, and power lines in the area were badly damaged, Naeem Chughtai, Mirpur residents who live near the city's main hospital, told AFP.

Jarral and Qazi Sajjad Witness Tahir, who spoke to AFP by telephone from Mirpur, said the quake had caused the building to collapse.

'So anxious'
Mirpur, a town known for luxury homes, has strong ties to the UK with the majority of the 450,000 population carrying both British and Pakistani passports.

A spokesman at the British High Commission told AFP they were watching the report, while the US embassy offered sympathy to those affected via Twitter.

Tremors felt as far as New Delhi, the Press Trust of India reported that panicked people rushed out of their homes and offices in several places, including in Rajasthan, Punjab and Haryana.

"The quake was felt but there were no reports of any damage," Amir Ali, from the department of disaster management in India-controlled Kashmir, told AFP.

India-held Kashmir with mobile and internet service is largely cut off after the regional autonomy was stripped by New Delhi in early August, people use social media to express concern about not being able to get in touch with their families in the valley.

"Unfortunately @AmitShah (Home Affairs) please restore mobile services in Kashmir I do not know of any updates since August 5 on my family. We now feel so anxious about our family after the earthquake, "Faizan co-tweeted.

Pakistan across part of the boundary where the Indian and Eurasian tectonic plates meet, making the country vulnerable to earthquakes.

In October 2015, a 7.5 magnitude earthquake in Pakistan and Afghanistan killed nearly 400 people, flattening buildings in rough terrain that hamper relief efforts.

The country was also hit by 7.6-magnitude earthquake on October 8, 2005, which killed more than 73,000 people and left about 3.5 million homeless, mainly in Pakistan-Kashmir.