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UNCOVERED: Timeline deadly earthquakes in afghanistan - The Untold Story

The epicentre of the tremor was about 44km (27 miles) from the city of Khost, near Afghanistan's border with Pakistan [Bakhtar News Agency via AP Photo]

Hundreds of people have been killed in Afghanistan’s deadliest earthquake in some 20 years.

The magnitude 5.9 tremor in the early hours of Wednesday flattened hundreds of homes in the southeastern provinces of Paktika and Khost, killing at least 920 people and injuring some 600.

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