Images shared by Afghan journalists showed at least one village reduced to rubble after a series of quakes flattened stone and mudbrick homes in the country's west.
Afghan residents sit at a damaged house after an earthquake in a village in Herat province on Saturday.Two strong earthquakes have shaken parts of western Afghanistan — leaving hundreds feared dead and more than 1,000 injured.
Other images showed the dead strewn about, covered out of respect with blankets. They included children.told The Associated Press"All people are out of their homes," Samadi said."Houses, offices and shops are all empty and there are fears of more earthquakes. My family and I were inside our home, I felt the quake." His family began shouting and ran outside, he told the news service.
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