Death toll from Afghanistan’s earthquake rises to 1,150 people

Afghans pray for relatives killed in the earthquake at a burial site in Gayan village, Paktika province (Ebrahim Nooroozi/AP)

The death toll from a devastating earthquake in Afghanistan continues to climb days after it turned brick and stone homes into rubble, killing 1,150 people and wounding scores more, according to the latest figures carried in state media.

The country of 38 million people was already in the midst of a spiralling economic crisis that had plunged millions deep into poverty with over a million children at risk of severe malnutrition.