The death toll from strong earthquakes that shook western Afghanistan has risen to 2,000, a Taliban spokesman said.A powerful magnitude-6.3 earthquake struck Herat, destroying six villages and leaving hundreds of civilians buried under debris, said Abdul Wahid Rayan, spokesman of the Ministry of Information and Culture.
Disaster authority spokesperson Mohammad Abdullah Jan said four villages in the Zenda Jan district in Herat province bore the brunt of the quake and aftershocks. The World Health Organisation in Afghanistan said it dispatched 12 ambulance cars to Zenda Jan to evacuate casualties to hospitals. Abdul Ghani Baradar, the Taliban-appointed deputy prime minister for economic affairs, expressed his condolences to the dead and injured in Herat and Badghis.
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