At least 280 dead after 6.1 magnitude quake hits Afghanistan
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A powerful 6.1 magnitude earthquake has struck Afghanistan’s eastern Paktika province, killing at least 280 people and leaving scores injured.
The epicenter of the quake was about 44km (27 miles) from the south-eastern city of Khost, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.
The earthquake’s tremors were felt across more than 500km of Afghanistan, India and Pakistan.
“I am in Kabul, Afghanistan, I felt the earthquake, it was destroyable, hope everyone in save zone,” a resident of the Afghan capital, Kabul, posted on the website of the European Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC).
Bakhtar news agency, the official state news agency of the Afghan government, reported that helicopters and ambulances had been sent to Paktika from it’s neighboring provinces. (ILKHA)
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