Another strong earthquake has hit part of Afghanistan days after a quake killed more than 2,400 people and flattened whole villages.

The magnitude 6.3 earthquake on Wednesday was about 17 miles outside Herat, the capital of Herat province in western Afghanistan, and was six miles deep.

It has injured at least 80 people and a landslide has blocked the major Herat-Torghondi highway, Information Ministry spokesman Abdul Wahid Rayan said.

It also flattened all 700 homes in Chahak village, which was untouched by the tremors of previous days, although no deaths had yet been reported as residents evacuated in the wake of the earlier quake.

An earthquake on Saturday and subsequent tremors killed more than 2,400 across Herat province.

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