HERAT CITY (Pajhwok): Two people lost their lives and 117 others injured in the powerful earthquake rattled western Herat on Sunday morning.
The fresh magnitude 6.3 earthquake struck western Afghanistan, just over a week after strong tremors killed thousands of people and flattened entire villages in Herat.
Maulvi Nesar Ahmad Elyas, the governor’s spokesman, said so far two people had been killed and 50 others injured.
The casualties were shifted to the zonal hospital, he said, fearing fatalities and financial losses in remote areas. However, reports regarding causalities and damages were not immediately available.
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