Fresh earthquake in Afghanistan kills one, injures 90

Herat, Afghanistan: Following tremors in the Herat region of west Afghanistan on Sunday, at least one person was killed and ninety others were hurt, according to Farhad Afzali, a physician at the Herat hospital.

A hospital official stated that there might be more casualties.

Locals said that the tremors have damaged around 30 villages in the province.

Two deadly quakes, each with a magnitude of 6.2 on the Richter scale, followed by several aftershocks, rocked west Afghanistan with an epicentre in the Zinda Jan district of Herat province on October 7, leaving over 2,000 dead and thousands more injured.

Since October 7, Herat has been experiencing a series of tremors, forcing locals to stay and sleep on the public ground to escape possible devastating aftershocks.


With inputs from IANS 

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