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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.

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 United States Geological Survey (USGS).

On Monday, local officials said

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