About 150 people are believed to have died after landslides caused by an earthquake in Northern Afghanistan. A spokesman for the United Nations World Food Programme, which is operating in the area, said that two villages in Samangan province had been badly affected.
The powerful earthquake, measuring 7.2 on the Richter scale, struck Afghanistan's Hindu Kush mountains on Sunday afternoon, shaking a wide area stretching from Tajikistan to India. Earthquakes are relatively frequent in the Hindu Kush mountain range.
