Images shared by Afghan journalists showed at least one village reduced to rubble after a series of quakes flattened stone and mudbrick homes in the country's west.
The United Nations said at least 320 were dead, but later added that number was not verified. Local authorities said 100 people were killed and 500 injured, the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said, according to The Associated Press.
"All people are out of their homes," Samadi said."Houses, offices and shops are all empty and there are fears of more earthquakes. My family and I were inside our home, I felt the quake." His family began shouting and ran outside, he told the news service.The U.S. Geological Survey reported that a pair of earthquakes had a magnitude of 6.3, and they were followed by aftershocks.
Afghanistan is one of the world's poorest and malnourished countries — and it has been largely isolated since the Taliban seized power
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