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Disaster management officials in Afghanistan say at least 280 people have been killed and many more injured by a powerful earthquake.

The earthquake was a 6.1 magnitude quake and hit overnight about 40km from the city of Khost in south-eastern Afghanistan.

Tawab Zafarzai is a freelance producer in Kabul. He tells Newsday that the death toll 鈥渨ill rise more and more鈥� because 鈥渕ost of the construction is made of mud鈥�. He adds that it will be 鈥渁lmost impossible鈥� for aid to reach the disaster zone.

(Picture: Rescuers arriving in Paktika province by helicopter. Credit: Afghan Government News Agency)