"Rescuers in Afghanistan are racing against time to look for survivors in the rubble of collapsed mud and stone homes after a powerful earthquake left over 1,000 people dead. The quake one of Afghanistan's worst struck the country's eastern provinces of Kunar and Nangarhar on Monday with a magnitude of 6.0 at a shallow depth of 10 kilometers (6 miles). The midnight earthquake was followed by at least five aftershocks. Several remote villages in the mountainous provinces were affected in the calamity."
"The Afghan Red Crescent Society aid group said Tuesday that the death toll from the quake increased to 1,124, with 3,251 more people injured and more than 8,000 homes destroyed. Rescue efforts on Tuesday were focused on reaching the isolated areas after operations were conducted in four villages in Kunar the previous day, news agencies cited Ehsanullah Ehsan, the provincial head of disaster management, as saying. He said there were "still injured people left in the distant villages" who needed evacuations to hospitals."
A magnitude-6.0 earthquake struck eastern Afghanistan's Kunar and Nangarhar provinces at midnight with a shallow depth of 10 kilometers, followed by at least five aftershocks. The quake destroyed more than 8,000 homes, killed 1,124 people and injured 3,251, according to the Afghan Red Crescent Society. Rescue teams focused on reaching isolated mountain villages after initial operations in four Kunar villages. Narrow mountain roads, debris and adverse weather hampered vehicle access, prompting the use of machinery to clear routes. Villagers joined rescuers, using bare hands to remove wreckage. Bodies were wrapped in white shrouds and buried as prayers were offered over the dead.
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