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Day: October 9, 2023
Emergency teams in Afghanistan are racing to rescue people from the rubble left by a powerful earthquake that struck the west of the country.
More than 2,400 people were killed in earthquakes in Afghanistan, the Taliban administration said on Sunday, in the deadliest tremors to rock the quake-prone mountainous country in years, according to Reuters.
The Saturday quakes in the west of the country hit 35 kmnorthwest of the city of Herat, with one of 6.3 magnitude, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) said.
They were among the world’s deadliest quakes this year, after tremors in Turkey and Syria killed an estimated 50,000 in February.