KABUL/NURGAL: Rescue workers and volunteers in eastern Afghanistan are still pulling bodies from the rubble days after powerful earthquakes devastated mountainous provinces bordering Pakistan, with Taliban authorities reporting the death toll has surpassed 1,457 and could rise further. More than 3,700 people have been injured and over 6,700 homes destroyed. The first quake, measuring 6.0 in magnitude, struck on Sunday at a shallow depth of 10 km, making it one of the deadliest in decades.

Footage from Nangarhar showed people frantically digging through rubble with their hands, searching for loved ones in the dead of night.

A magnitude 6.2 earthquake hit the Hindu Kush mountains in Afghanistan on August 31