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Mandatory Credit: Photo by Ebrahim Noroozi/AP/Shutterstock (12997162o) Man stands among destruction after an earthquake in Gayan village, in Paktika province, Afghanistan, . A powerful earthquake struck a rugged, mountainous region of eastern Afghanistan early Wednesday, flattening stone and mud-brick homes in the country's deadliest quake in two decades, the state-run news agency reported Earthquake, Gayan, Afghanistan - 23 Jun 2022

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More than 950 killed in magnitude 5.9 earthquake in Afghanistan

An earthquake near the city of Khōst in south-east Afghanistan has killed nearly a thousand people and injured hundreds

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Afghanistan's Hindu Kush peaks

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The new Afghanistan war: Saving snow leopards and other wild treasures

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