Hundreds of people are feared dead and injured in an earthquake of magnitude 6 that struck Afghanistan’s rugged northeastern province of Kunar.
The quake at was centered 27km east-northeast of the city of Jalalabad in Nangarhar province, the US Geological Survey said.
Early reports showed 30 dead in a single village, the health ministry said, but added that accurate casualty figures had yet to be gathered.
Other reports put the death toll at nine.
“The number of casualties and injuries is high, but since the area is difficult to access, our teams are still on site,” health ministry spokesperson Sharafat Zaman said in a statement.
Hundreds of injured were taken to hospital, local authorities said, with figures likely to rise as reports arrived from remote areas with few roads.
Rescuers were working in several districts of the mountainous province where the midnight quake hit at a depth of 10 km, to level homes of mud and stone on the border with Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa region, officials said.
Afghanistan is prone to deadly earthquakes, particularly in the Hindu Kush mountain range, where the Indian and Eurasian tectonic plates meet.
Jalalabad is a bustling trade city due to its proximity with neighbouring Pakistan and a key border crossing between the countries.
It has a population of about 300,000 according to the municipality, but its metropolitan area is thought to be far larger.
Most of its buildings are low-rise constructions, mostly of concrete and brick, and its outlying areas include homes built of mud bricks and wood.
Many are of poor construction.
A series of earthquakes in Afghanistan’s west killed more than 1,000 people last year, underscoring the vulnerability of one of the world’s poorest countries to natural disasters.
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