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Rescuers struggled Thursday to help victims of an earthquake that killed at least 1,000 people in southeastern Afghanistan, but a lack of resources, mountainous terrain and torrential rain hampered their work.

The earthquake, which measured 5.9 on the Richter scale, occurred early Wednesday morning in this poor and hard-to-reach rural area on the border with Pakistan.

This new tragedy in Afghanistan, which is suffering mainly from an economic and humanitarian crisis, constitutes a major challenge to the Taliban movement, which has been in power in the country since mid-August. The earthquake that killed the largest number of people in Afghanistan in more than two decades.

At least 1,000 people died and 1,500 others were injured in Paktika alone, the worst-affected state, according to the  ...