80 feared dead in Afghan quake
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STORY: At least 80 people are feared dead after their mud-homes were buried in a landslide triggered by an earthquake in northern Afghanistan, officials said on Tuesday (June 12).
Two quakes measuring 5.4 and 5.7 struck the Hindukush region on Monday (June 11), causing a part of the mountain to shift and burying homes in a rubble of mud and rock.
Some of the injured were taken to nearby hospital for treatment.
The governor of Baghlan province said 22 houses were buried in a remote village and so far two bodies had been removed from the rubble.
Twenty people were in hospital with injuries.
Afghanistan's north is prone to earthquakes and in a 2002 tremor in Baghlan province more than 2,000 people were killed.
STORY: At least 80 people are feared dead after their mud-homes were buried in a landslide triggered by an earthquake in northern Afghanistan, officials said on Tuesday (June 12).
Two quakes measuring 5.4 and 5.7 struck the Hindukush region on Monday (June 11), causing a part of the mountain to shift and burying homes in a rubble of mud and rock.
Some of the injured were taken to nearby hospital for treatment.
The governor of Baghlan province said 22 houses were buried in a remote village and so far two bodies had been removed from the rubble.
Twenty people were in hospital with injuries.
Afghanistan's north is prone to earthquakes and in a 2002 tremor in Baghlan province more than 2,000 people were killed.