A pregnant woman being rushed to hospital and four members of her family were killed when an ambulance struck a roadside bomb in Afghanistan, the Interior Ministry said today.

Mohammad Taheri fainted when his mother’s body was unearthed today, one of the victims of an earthquake in Iran that destroyed about 100 villages and killed 220 people.

Villagers gathered at a hilltop cemetery at dawn today to bury their dead 24 hours after a powerful earthquake in northwestern Iran flattened hundreds of villages, killing at least 220 people.