Afghan children are seen among ruins after an earthquake in east Afghanistan's Nangarhar province, on April 24, 2013. A tremor jolted Afghan capital Kabul and its eastern provinces at 01: 55 p.m. local time on Wednesday, claiming the lives of three people and injuring 70 others, an official said. (Xinhua/Tahir Safi)
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Earthquake kills 3 Afghans, wounds 70
KABUL, April 24 (Xinhua) -- A tremor jolted Afghan capital Kabul and eastern provinces of Nangarhar, Laghman and Nuristan at 01: 55 p.m. local time on Wednesday, claiming the lives of three people and injuring 70 others, an official said.
"So far three dead bodies and 70 injured people, 23 of them in critical conditions, have been taken to hospitals," Doctor Baz Mohammad Shirzad, head of public health department in Nangarhar province, told Xinhua. Full story
