Multiple earthquakes struck in the western province of Herat on Saturday and Wednesday, destroying entire villages in the war-battered country, many of which were scattered in remote areas.
"Around 1,000 dead, 2,000 registered injured and 1,320 houses totally destroyed," the spokesman of the Taliban-run disaster management ministry, Janan Sayeeq, said of the multiple earthquakes that struck on Saturday.
"The previous details about the death toll were on the basis of predictions," he said, days after the health ministry had said around 1,000 people had been killed. The U.N.'s humanitarian office said on Tuesday that around 1,300 people had died.
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