Several hundred people have been killed in an earthquake in western Afghanistan, Taliban officials said, one of the deadliest natural disasters to hit the isolated country in years.
The 6.3-magnitude earthquake struck an area near Herat, close to Afghanistan’s western border with Iran, on Saturday. The initial quake was followed by several aftershocks and reduced villages in the area to rubble, forcing panicked residents into the street to escape collapsing buildings.
Efforts to account for casualties have been complicated by the lack of state capacity and aid agencies in the region.
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