1,000 are killed as quake razes homes

We don’t yet know the full extent of devastation

RESCUERS recover a body after a massive earthquake killed at least 1,000 people and injured 1,500 more in a remote and impoverished part of Afghanistan.

Pictures showed powerful landslides and whole villages collapsed into mounds of earth in the eastern province of

Paktika. Hundreds of houses, many of them built from mud, were destroyed by the magnitude 6.1 event, which occurred at a depth of 32 miles.

UNICEF’S Afghanistan representative

Dr Mohamed Ayoya said: “We don’t yet know the full extent of the devastation, but we believe hundreds of people have been killed, including many women and children.

“Many more have been injured and many homes damaged or destroyed. These

DR MOHAMED AYOYA numbers are

ON RISING DEATH TOLL

expected to grow as reports continue to come in.”

RESCUE Villagers load injured on to a helicopter CASUALTY A young victim is given emergency care IN RUINS Rubble in affected village