Kabul : About 622 people were killed and more than 1,500 injured in an earthquake that struck eastern Afghanistan, authorities said on Monday, as helicopters ferried the wounded to safety from rubble being combed in the hunt for survivors.
The disaster will further stretch the resources of the country from a sharp drop in aid to a huge pushback of its citizens from neighbouring countries.
The quake of magnitude 6 injured more than 1,500, the Taliban-run Afghan interior ministry said in a statement that put the death toll at 622.
