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Herat, Afghanistan – A magnitude 6.3 earthquake shook western Afghanistan on Sunday, the US Geological Survey said, wracking the same region where more than 1,000 people were killed in tremors last week.
The Taliban government said more than 1,000 people were killed in last week’s tremors, while the World Health Organization put the figure at nearly 1,400 late Saturday. Thousands of residents are now living around the ruins of homes where entire families were wiped out in an instant. “We know they could live there in tents for one month, but more than that would probably be very difficult,” said public health minister Qalandar Ebad.
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