KABUL: Hundreds were feared dead and injured in an earthquake of magnitude 6 that struck Afghanistan’s rugged northeastern province of Kunar, authorities said on Monday, as rescuers combed the rubble of homes in a hunt for survivors. Early reports showed 30 dead in a single village, the health ministry said, but added that accurate casualty figures had yet to be gathered in an area of scattered hamlets with a long history of earthquakes and flooding.

6.0 magnitude earthquake hits Nangahar in Afghanistan, killing 9 and injuring 25.

The quake struck at a relatively shallow depth near Jalalabad late on Sunday, the USGS says.