
Death Toll In Afghan Quake Rises To 1,150 As Authorities Stop Search For Survivors
By RFE/RL’s Radio Azadi June 24, 2022 An aftershock has killed five people in eastern Afghanistan just hours after Taliban authorities said they have ended search-and-rescue operations from a major earthquake two days ago and raised the death toll to at least 1,150 in the war-torn country’s worst such disaster in two decades. Abdul Wahid Rayan, the Taliban