The quake of magnitude 6 killed at least 622 people in the eastern provinces of Kunar and Nangarhar, the Taliban-run Afghanistan interior ministry said, with more than 1,500 injured and numerous houses destroyed, Reuters reports.
Earlier, state media had reported 500 dead.
The disaster will further stretch the resources of the South Asian nation already grappling with humanitarian crises, from a sharp drop in aid to a huge pushback of its citizens from neighboring countries.
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Identities of casualties, the injured in Wednesday's tragic road accident in Armenia determined
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