Powerful earthquake kills at least 255 people in Afghanistan 

More than a thousand people have been killed after a devastating 6.1 magnitude earthquake struck eastern Afghanistan, flattening villages and causing huge landslides.

Homes have been reduced to rubble after the tremors in the early hours, with bodies swathed in blankets lying on the ground in the eastern Pakitka province.

The United Nations’ humanitarian agency was scrambling to get emergency shelter, trauma care and food aid to the scene, and said the death toll is expected to rise even…