Powerful earthquake kills 1,800 in Afghanistan
A powerful earthquake devastated villages in the Hindu Kush mountains of northern Afghanistan, where Afghan officials today estimated that 1,800 people had died and thousands more were injured in a region already afflicted by drought, war and food shortages.
The military commander from the Baglan region where the 5.9-magnitude quake struck yesterday said 20,000 mud-brick houses had collapsed, saying that as many as 600-1,000 people remained trapped inside.
