AT least 250 people have been killed and hundreds more injured after multiple earthquakes struck eastern Afghanistan.
A 6.0 quake, the strongest, struck the the Jalalabad area at around midnight local time, with tremors felt as far as Pakistan’s capital, Islamabad, nearly 200 miles away.
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Towns in the province of Kunar, near Jalalabad, were near the epicentre.
The Kunar Disaster Management Authority said in a statement that at least 250 people were killed and 500 others injured in the districts of Nur Gul, Soki, Watpur, Manogi and Chapadare.
Rescuers are working in several districts of the mountainous province where the quake hit.
Officials have said the terrain is making it tricky to reach survivors – and they expect the death toll to rise.
The 6.0 magnitude quake struck at 11:47pm, 17 miles northeast of Jalalabad, according to the US Geological Survey,
Its epicentre was 5 miles below ground.
There was a second earthquake in the same province about 20 minutes later, with a magnitude of 4.5 and a depth of 6.2 miles.
This was later followed by a 5.2 earthquake at the same depth.
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