Aid and security agencies are being urged to reach areas hit by the quake as soon as possible, with many people thought to be trapped under building debris.
, as ITV News' Graham Stothard reportsA Taliban spokesman said on Sunday that the death toll had risen to 2,000, after six villages were flattened and residents left buried under debris.
Three aftershocks - measuring 6.3, 5.9 and 5.5 in magnitude - quickly followed before a number of lesser shocks were also felt. Abdul Ghani Baradar, the Taliban-appointed deputy prime minister for economic affairs, expressed his condolences to the dead and injured in Herat and Badghis.
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