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Hundreds feared dead in Afghanistan quake as rescuers struggle to reach damaged areas

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Taliban government says hundreds feared dead in Kunarpublished.Multiple sources in Kunar province, which was badly hit. All of them told me that “hundreds are dead” and many more are injured.

A Taliban figure who is organising efforts to transport dead bodies by helicopters said that in one village 21 people have died and 35 are injured.

Even now, aftershocks are being felt in many districts of the province, he added.Another Kunar province official said the “number of deaths is horrible”.

But at this stage, nobody can provide exact figures as the affected areas are remote and hard to reach.

Mobile networks are not working in some areas, while in other parts roads have been cut off by landslides and flooding.

In another Media report  Over 250 were killed dead following a 6.0 magnitude earthquake that struck eastern Afghanistan, in a mountainous area close to the border with Pakistan, local officials said on Monday.

The quake hit the Jalalabad area around midnight local time.

It was at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the German Research Centre for Geosciences said, as per news agency Reuters.

 

The tremors were also felt in Jammu and Kashmir, and its neighbouring states.

 

In October 2023, an earthquake in Afghanistan’s western province of Herat killed at least 2,400 people, the Taliban administration said.

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