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Aid has begun to arrive in a remote part of Afghanistan where an earthquake killed 1,000 people, with Taliban officials saying the rescue operation was almost complete

The magnitude 6.1 earthquake struck early yesterday about 160 km southeast of Kabul, in arid mountains dotted with small settlements near the border with Pakistan.

Mohammad Nassim Haqqani, a spokesperson for the disaster ministry, told Reuters rescue operations had finished in major districts but were continuing in some isolated areas. The death toll makes it Afghanistan's deadliest earthquake in two decades, according to US government data. The humanitarian situation has deteriorated alarmingly since the Taliban takeover, aid officials say, with the country cut-off from much international assistance because of sanctions.

Afghanistan's economy has all but collapsed, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said in an appeal to aid donors in late March.

 

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