Sept. 1 (UPI) -- More than 600 people were killed and hundreds more were injured by a 6.0-magnitude earthquake that struck Afghanistan near its border with Pakistan, the national broadcaster reported Monday.
The temblor struck late Sunday near Jalalabad, a city of some 270,000 people located 74 miles east of the capital Kabul, the U.S. Geological Survey said. The epicenter of the strike was at a depth of about 5 miles, some 17 miles west of Jalalabad and 27 miles south of Markaz-e Woluswali-ye Achin.
The death toll early Monday was at 610 people with 1,300 injured, Mufti Abdul Matin Qani, a spokesman for the Ministry of Interior, said, RTA reported, though casualty numbers are expected to rise.
Sharafat Zaman Amar, spokesman for the ministry of health, said on X that several villages have been "completely destroyed."
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