(220118) -- BADGHIS, Jan. 18, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Photo taken on Jan. 18, 2022 shows damaged mud houses after an earthquake in Qadis district of Afghanistan's western province of Badghis. The death toll from the magnitude 5.6 earthquake striking Afghanistan's western province of Badghis Monday afternoon has risen to 22, according to a provincial official on Tuesday. (Photo by Mashal/Xinhua) (Photo by Xinhua/Sipa USA)
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KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Afghanistan’s state-run news agency says an earthquake in the country’s east has killed 1,000 people and injured 1,500 others. That latest figure came from the Bakhtar News Agency as officials tried to help those affected by Wednesday’s temblor. Rescue efforts are likely to be complicated since many international aid agencies left Afghanistan after the Taliban takeover of the country last year and the chaotic withdrawal of the U.S. military from the longest war in its history.
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