Volunteers and rescuers were pulling nore bodies from the rubble of destroyed buildings in eastern Afghanistan on Thursday, four days after an earthquake that inflicted a death toll that was already at nearly 1,470 people, Taliban authorities said.

The magnitude-6.0 earthquake that jolted the mountainous region bordering Pakistan late Sunday is one of the deadliest in the country in decades.

The toll — 1,469 dead and more than 3,700 injured — will likely rise, deputy Taliban government spokesman Hamdullah Fitrat said on Thursday.

“Additional bodies were recovered during these efforts, leading to an increase in the reported casualties,” Fitrat wrote on X, adding that a new toll would be released later in the day.

“We cannot stop hoping” that injured people remain alive under the rubble,

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