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20 killed in Afghanistan quake
Updated On: 17 April, 2009 01:31 PM IST | | Agencies
At least 20 people were killed in an earthquake that hit Afghanistan's Nangarhar province early Friday, officials said.
At least 20 people were killed in an earthquake that hit Afghanistan's Nangarhar province early Friday, officials said.
The earthquake, with magnitude 5.1 on the Richter scale, had its epicentre in Nangarhar, about 80 km east of Kabul, said Shersad Hamras, the director of Afghanistan's disaster control office.
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