Two powerful magnitude-6.3 earthquakes followed by strong aftershocks hit western Afghanistan on Saturday, the country's national disaster authority said.
More than 2,400 people have been killed in earthquakes in Afghanistan, the Taliban administration says. The earthquakes and aftershocks were the deadliest to strike the country in two decades. Two powerful magnitude-6.3 earthquakes followed by strong aftershocks killed dozens of people in western Afghanistan on Saturday, the country's national disaster authority said.
It was followed by three very strong aftershocks measuring magnitude 6.3, 5.9 and 5.5, as well as lesser shocks. Disaster authority spokesperson Mohammad Abdullah Jan said four villages in the Zenda Jan district in Herat province bore the brunt of the quake and aftershocks. The World Health Organization in Afghanistan said it dispatched 12 ambulance cars to Zenda Jan to transport people to hospitals.
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