Kabul: A minimum of six other folks had been killed and 9 others injured after an earthquake in japanese Afghanistan in a single day, an reliable stated on Monday.

The 5.3-magnitude temblor that hit districts alongside the japanese border with Pakistan comes not up to 3 months after a formidable quake killed greater than 1,000 other folks, additionally alongside the similar frontier.

The newest quake used to be felt within the provinces of Kunar, Laghman and Nangarhar, and within the capital Kabul.

“We’re amassing data from different spaces referring to casualties and damages,” deputy minister for crisis control Sharafuddin Muslim advised AFP.

Afghanistan is continuously hit through earthquakes — particularly within the Hindu Kush mountain vary, which lies close to the junction of the Eurasian and Indian tectonic plates.

On June 22, the rustic’s deadliest earthquake in over 20 years — of magnitude 5.9 — killed greater than 1,000 other folks and injured hundreds.

In 2015, about 380 other folks had been killed in Pakistan and Afghanistan when a 7.5-magnitude earthquake ripped around the two international locations.

In contemporary months Afghanistan has additionally been hit through flash floods that experience killed about 200 other folks and destroyed hundreds of houses.

Such failures pose an enormous logistical problem for Afghanistan’s Taliban govt, which has remoted itself from a lot of the arena through introducing hardline Islamist rule.