Nearly 4,000 have been registered as injured. The vast majority of the victims were from the mountainous Kunar province near the border with Pakistan. Rescue efforts are still underway in that area, writes a spokesperson for the Taliban regime on X.
The relatively shallow earthquake (eight kilometers) had a magnitude of 6.0 and its center was 27 kilometers from the country's fifth largest city Jalalabad. Buildings shook in both Afghanistan's capital Kabul and Pakistan's capital Islamabad.
The earthquake was followed by several aftershocks.
