Magnitude 5.6 earthquake strikes Hindu Kush region, Afghanistan, EMSC says

An injured Afghani girl is comforted while being evacuated by helicopter 02 June 1998 near Shuraq after a violent earthquake destroyed her village in northeast Aghanistan. (AFP file photo)
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  • EMSC first reported the quake at a magnitude of 6.4

KABUL: An earthquake of magnitude 5.6 struck the Hindu Kush region in Afghanistan on Wednesday, the European-Mediterranean Seismological Center (EMSC) said.
The quake was at a depth of 121 km (75 miles), EMSC said, and the epicenter 164 km east of Baghlan, a city with a population of about 108,000.
EMSC first reported the quake at a magnitude of 6.4.