Afghanistan earthquake death toll jumps to more than 2,200, say Taliban

Search and rescue efforts were ongoing, a government spokesman said (Siddiqullah Alizai/AP)

Hundreds of bodies have been recovered from houses destroyed by a major earthquake in Afghanistan last week, pushing the death toll to more than 2,200, a Taliban government spokesman has said.

A 6.0-magnitude quake struck several provinces of the mountainous and remote east of the country on Sunday night, levelling villages and trapping people under rubble.