Afghanistan earthquake's death toll reaches 1K; 610 injured
ISLAMABAD - A powerful earthquake killed at least 1,000 people and injured 610 in eastern Afghanistan, officials said on Wednesday. Maulvi Sharafuddin Muslim, deputy minister of state for disaster management, said 1,000 people have so far been killed and over 610 wounded in the earthquake, the state-run Bakhtar News Agency quoted him as saying during a press conference in the capital Kabul. "At least 218 people have been killed and more than 300 injured in an earthquake in #Paktika's Giani district alone. So far, the number of martyrs in #Paktika has reached 381," Abdul Wahid Ray...