Foreign Aid Trickles as Death Toll Rises in Quake-Hit Afghanistan - New Delhi Times - India's Only International Newspaper

The number of people killed by Saturday's 6.3-magnitude earthquake in Afghanistan has surpassed 2,400 as search and rescue teams extracted more bodies from the ruins of hundreds of destroyed houses, according to local officials. "Martyrs are still under the rubble," said Matiul Haq Khalis, president of the Afghan Red Crescent Society, after visiting the quake-affected…

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