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Rescue teams are combing through the rubble,
searching for survivors after a powerful earthquake struck eastern Afghanistan on Sunday night.
At least 900 people were killed and more than 3,000 others were injured.
NPR's Omkar Kandikar reports the United Nations is appealing for international assistance.
Spokesperson of UN's refugee agency Babar Baloch said the earthquake came at a time the country was already reeling from a drought and forced expulsion of millions of Afghans from the neighbouring Pakistan and Iran.
He said the scale of the disaster far exceeds the capacity of the local authorities.
Since roads are obstructed and mobile networks cut off in many places,
aid workers are forced to go on foot to reach victims in remote villages.
Afghanistan is vulnerable to earthquakes because of its location at the intersection of two major tectonic planes.
An earthquake in the country's west in 2022 killed more than 1,000 people.
Omkar Khandekar, NPR News, Mumbai.
Thousands of demonstrators rallied in Missouri on Monday to protest a Trump administration-backed plan to redraw the state's congressional districts.
St. Louis Public Radio's Jason Rosenbaum reports some critics see the move as part of an effort to shield the president from accountability.