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    Magnitude 5.6 earthquake strikes Hindu Kush region, Afghanistan, EMSC says

    (Reuters) -An earthquake of magnitude 5.6 struck the Hindu Kush region in Afghanistan on Wednesday, the European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC) said.

    The quake was at a depth of 121 km (75 miles), EMSC said, and the epicentre 164 km east of Baghlan, a city with a population of about 108,000.

    EMSC first reported the quake at a magnitude of 6.4.

    (Reporting by Mrinmay Dey in Bengaluru; Editing by Tom Hogue)

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