The death toll from a series of earthquakes in remote western Afghanistan rose sharply Sunday to "more than 1,000", a government spokesman said.
"Unfortunately, the casualties are practically very high... the death toll is more than one thousand people,"
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Bilal Karimi told AFP of Saturday's magnitude 6.3 quake in Herat province, which was followed by a series of powerful aftershocks.source: BSS