New Delhi, Sept. 1 -- Around 500 people have been killed and 1000 more injured in an earthquake that struck easternAfghanistan on Monday, the country's state-run broadcaster Radio Television Afghanistan (RTA) reported.

Taliban-led health authorities in Kabul, however, said they were still confirming the official toll figure as they worked to reachremoteareas.

A magnitude 6.0 earthquake struck about 27 kilometers (17 miles) east north east of Jalalabad in Afghanistan around midnight, the US Geological Survey reported. Tremors were also felt in Kabul and neighbouring Pakistan's capital Islamabad, around 370 kilometres (230 miles) away, for several seconds, AFP report said.

The epicentre of the quake, which struck at a relatively shallow ...