ITV News published this video item, entitled “Around 1,000 people dead and scores injured after powerful earthquake hits Afghanistan | ITV News” – below is their description.
A powerful earthquake has killed some 1,000 people and injured around another 1,500 in eastern Afghanistan, according to a state-run news agency.
On Wednesday morning, the 6.1 magnitude earthquake struck 27 miles from the south-eastern city of Khost, near the Pakistani border, the US Geological Survey said.
Photographs showed houses flattened to rubble and bodies swathed in blankets laying on the ground.
The death toll was around equal to that of an earthquake that struck the northern part of the country in 2002.
Those are the deadliest since 1998, when a 6.1 magnitude earthquake and subsequent tremors in Afghanistan’s remote north-east region killed at least 4,500 people.
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