At least 120 dead, around 1,000 injured following earthquakes in west Afghanistan

HERAT, Afghanistan, Oct 8: At least 120 people were killed and around 1,000 others injured as earthquakes shocked Afghanistan's Herat and other western provinces, a local official from Herat told reporters.

About 1,000 injured people have been taken to the hospital in the provincial capital Herat City, the official said, adding that 12 villages in the Zindajan and Ghorian districts of Herat were destroyed due to the earthquakes, said Mawlawi Musa Ashari, Herat's provincial director for the National Disaster Management Authority.