In this photograph taken on June 25, 2022, children sit outside a damaged house after a recent earthquake at Akhtar Jan village in Gayan district of Paktika province. (SAHEL ARMAN / AFP)
KABUL – An earthquake in northeastern Afghanistan killed at least eight people early on Monday, and the toll could rise, the state news agency quoted a regional official as saying.
The quake of magnitude 5.3 struck near the eastern city of Jalalabad in the early hours, the United States Geological Survey said
The quake of magnitude 5.3 struck near the eastern city of Jalalabad in the early hours, the United States Geological Survey said.
"Sunday night's earthquake has caused financial and human losses in Kunar province," Mawlavi Najibullah Hanif, the spokesman for the provincial governor, told the Bakhtar News Agency, adding that casualties could rise.
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Initial reports put the toll from the quake at six, with nine injured, said disaster ministry spokesman Mohammad Nassim Haqqani.
Afghanistan is still recovering from a strong earthquake in June that killed more than 1,000 and wiped out villages in its east.