Rescuers race to find Afghan quake survivors
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A spokesman for the 455th Air Expeditionary Wing at Bagram Airfield in Afghanistan said six U.S. service members who comprised the plane's crew died, along with five civilian passengers.
India delivered 21 tonnes of relief materials to Afghanistan as part of its assistance to earthquake-hit people of that country. Over 1,400 people were killed and more than 2,500 injured in eastern Afghanistan after a 6.0 magnitude quake hit the region late Sunday.
Afghanistan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs says it has summoned Pakistan’s ambassador in Kabul to protest what it says were Pakistani airstrikes that killed three civilians and wounded seven others in two eastern provinces.