More Than 600 Killed In Afghanistan Quake

(BBC) More than 600 people are feared dead after a magnitude 6.0 earthquake hits eastern Afghanistan, the Taliban interior ministry reports.

The quake, at a shallow depth of 8km (6 miles), shook buildings from Kabul to Pakistan's capital Islamabad .

The remote area where it struck makes providing accurate estimates hard, as officials warn of high casualty figures.

Dozens of houses are "under rubble", sources from the Taliban government say, while officials report entire villages being destroyed.

The earthquake's epicentre was 27km (17miles) away from Jalalabad, Afghanistan's fifth-largest city, and around 140km (87 miles) from the capital Kabul.

The area is mountainous with limited communications, which means information is emerging slowly.