Updates: Desperate search for survivors after Afghan quake kills over 800

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• At least 812 people have been killed and 2,817 injured after a magnitude 6 earthquake, one of the country’s deadliest in a decade, struck eastern Afghanistan, according to government spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid.
• A Taliban official says the country urgently needs field hospitals, shelter, food and clean water as frantic rescue operations are under way to reach affected remote areas.
• Several villages have been wiped off the map and communications have been disrupted, complicating rescue efforts. The eastern province of Kunar is the worst affected, followed by Nangarhar, Laghman, Nuristan and Panjshir.
• The US Geological Survey says the earthquake struck just before midnight in eastern Afghanistan, near the border with Pakistan. Aftershocks were felt in Pakistan and as far away as India.