5.9 magnitude earthquake jolts Afghanistan nearly 1000 killed.

5.9 magnitude earthquake jolts Afghanistan nearly 1000 killed.

At least 920 killed and 600 other injured after a magnitude 5.9 earthquake rocked remote parts of eastern Afghanistan and neighbouring Pakistan.

The death toll from a powerful earthquake in Afghanistan has climbed to 920, with more than 600 others wounded, according to the Taliban’s disaster management official, as rescuers try to reach the site of the disaster in remote Paktika and Khost provinces.

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