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| Deadly quake hits north Afghanistan | |
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| Seven people were killed and more than 70 injured when an earthquake shook parts of northern Afghanistan, officials have said. | |
| The Samangan province deputy governor said the quake hit just before midnight local time on Sunday. | |
| Samangan is 190km (120 miles) north-west of the capital Kabul and the same distance from Mazar-i-Sharif city. | |
| The 5.7 magnitude quake occurred at a depth of 10km, the US Geological Survey reported. | |
| It was felt in Kabul and the neighbouring countries of Uzbekistan and Tajikistan, the Associated Press news agency reported. | |
| Earthquake region | |
| Deputy governor Ghulam Sakhi Baghlani told the BBC that the casualties were in the Dara-e-Suf district of Samangan and that the toll could rise. | |
| He added that 300 houses were damaged and hundreds of cattle killed. | |
| Landslides sparked by the quake had blocked roads, making even more arduous what was already an eight-hour drive along winding mountain trails from the provincial capital of Aybak, AP news agency reported. | |
| Three civil defence units were sent to check on the damage and casualties. | |
| Earthquakes are common in Afghanistan and particularly in the Hindu Kush region. | |
| In 2002, a 5.3 quake in Baghlan province, which is next to Samangan, killed about 1,000 people. | |
| And in 1998, two earthquakes measuring 5.9 and 6.6. killed more than 6,000 people along the border with Tajikistan. |