An aftershock in the same region of eastern provinces killed five persons and injured 11 persons on Friday.
The toll due to a major earthquake in the eastern provinces of Afghanistan reached 1,150 on Friday, the Associated Press reported, citing the country’s state-run Bakhtar News agency. At least 1,600 people were injured, said Abdul Wahid Rayan, the director of the Taliban-run agency. Parts of Afghanistan were hit by an earthquake of 6.1-magnitude on Wednesday. The quake had struck about 44 kilometres from the city of Khost in southeastern Afghanistan at a depth of 51 kilometres, according to the United States Geological Survey.
