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		</div><p>A powerful 6.3 magnitude earthquake struck western Afghanistan on Sunday, just over a week after strong quakes and aftershocks killed thousands of people and flattened entire villages in the same region.</p>
<p>The US Geological Survey said the latest quake’s epicentre was about 21 miles outside Herat, the provincial capital, and five miles below the surface.</p>
<p>Aid group Doctors Without Borders said two people were reported dead while Herat Regional Hospital received more than 100 people with injuries following the tremor.</p>
<p>The earthquakes on October 7 flattened whole villages in Herat in one of the most destructive quakes in the country’s recent history.</p>
<p>More than 90% of the people killed a week ago were women and children, UN officials reported Thursday.</p>
<p>Taliban officials said the earlier quakes killed more than 2,000 people across the province.</p>
<p>The epicentre was in Zenda Jan district, where 1,294 people died, 1,688 were injured and every home was destroyed, according to UN figures.</p>
<p>The initial quake, numerous aftershocks and a second 6.3-magnitude quake on Wednesday flattened villages, destroying hundreds of mud-brick homes that could not withstand such force. Schools, health clinics and other village facilities also collapsed.</p>
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