1,500 feared dead in Afghan quakes; 4,000 hurt, 1,500 homes destroyed.(Main News)

From: Manila Bulletin | Date: March 26, 2002 | Copyright information

KABUL, Afghanistan (Reuters) ? More than 1,500 people are feared dead and 4,000 injured after a series of earthquakes struck northern Afghanistan Monday night and Tuesday, government officials said.

A Foreign Ministry official said the district capital of Nahrin, near the epicenter in the rugged Hindu Kush mountains, had been destroyed and a Defense Ministry spokesman said 1,500 homes had crumbled.

The United Nations had said earlier that initial reports from local officials and aid agencies said more than 100 people had died in the quakes, which registered between five ...

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