More than 800 people have been killed, and thousands more injured, as of Monday evening after a magnitude-6 earthquake struck eastern Afghanistan late Sunday night. With the epicentre around 27km away from Afghanistan’s fifth-largest city, Jalalabad, the capital of Nangarhar, heavy tremors were felt as far as Kabul, around 130km westwards, and also eastwards in Pakistan’s capital Islamabad. The death toll is expected to rise ominously, with entire villages collapsing in Nangarhar’s bordering Kunar province where much of the rugged region is difficult to access, amid relief teams’ best efforts to reach the worst-hit sites in time. In 2022, a 6.2-magnitude earthquake in eastern Afghanistan killed at least 1,000 people, with more than 7,000 killed as a result of earthquakes in the country sin

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