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More than 200 people were killed and hundreds more injured when a 6.0-magnitude earthquake hit Afghanistan's eastern region on Sunday, according to state-run media.

Rescue workers have been mobilized in several districts of the mountainous region, near the Pakistan border, but there are fears the death toll could rise further. Latest Forecast

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Relief teams have struggled to reach some of the more remote communities and their progress has been hampered by landslides, reported the Taliban's state-run Bakhtar News Agency (BNA).

The earthquake hit just before midnight, 27 kilometers (16.77 miles) north-east of Jalalabad, a city of about 200,000 people in Nangarhar Province, and at a depth of 8km (4.97 miles), according to the Un

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