The Taliban government disclosed that the death toll from a series of earthquakes in western Afghanistan rose sharply on Sunday to more than two thousand.
As bodies continued to be pulled from demolished villages and buried in mass graves, more than one thousand three hundred homes were toppled when Saturday’s magnitude 6.3 quake — followed by eight strong aftershocks — jolted hard-to-reach areas 30 kilometres (19 miles) northwest of the provincial capital of Heart.
According to officials, village households, in the rural Zinda Jan district were reduced to jumbles of broken masonry, where makeshift rescue teams continued to dig trenches on Sunday.
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