Searchers Retrieve Bodies As Afghan Quake Toll Expected To Rise

Searchers pulled bodies from flattened homes in Afghanistan, four days after a massive quake struck (Credit: AFP)

Volunteers and rescuers were pulling nore bodies from the rubble of destroyed buildings in eastern Afghanistan on Thursday, four days after an earthquake that inflicted a death toll that was already at nearly 1,470 people, Taliban authorities said.

The magnitude-6.0 earthquake that jolted the mountainous region bordering Pakistan late Sunday is one of the deadliest in the country in decades.