New Delhi, Sept. 1 -- More than 800 people have been killed and thousands are injured in an earthquake that struck eastern Afghanistan today, September 1, the country's state-run broadcaster Radio Television Afghanistan (RTA) reported. The death toll from a powerful earthquake that struck eastern Afghanistan has risen to over 800, the Taliban government spokesman said Monday, with the majority in remote Kunar province.

Meanwhile, three villages were razed in the province of Kunar. Nurgal, Chawkay and Watapur were the districts of Kunar worst hit by the quake, Bakhtar reported.

Rescue teams rushed to search for survivors along the border of Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa region, where homes of mud and stone were levelled by the midnight q...