Wounded people in Afghanistan have been evacuated by helicopter following a magnitude 6.0 earthquake that struck, killing at least 622 people. The powerful quake hit the Jalalabad area around midnight local time on Monday, 1 September. Its impacts were felt as far as Pakistan’s capital, Islamabad, which is more than 300km (186 miles) away. The country is often struck by earthquakes due to its location in a seismically active zone within the Hindu Kush mountain range, near the junction of the Eurasian and Indian tectonic plates. A magnitude 6.3 earthquake struck on 7 October 2023, in which the Taliban government estimated at least 4,000 people died.

ISLAMABAD: An earthquake of magnitude 6.0 struck southeastern Afghanistan on Monday, Pakistan’s Met Office said, with jolts felt in several districts of Pakistan’s northwestern…

Tremors began at 7.17pm UK time, close to the border with Pakistan - leaving scenes of devastation in their wake.