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Afghanistan earthquake: Residents evacuated by helicopter as quake kills hundreds of people
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.
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