QALA-E-NAW, Afghanistan, April 16 (Xinhua) -- One commuter lost his life and 20 others sustained injury as a mini-bus turned turtle in west Afghanistan's Badghis province on Tuesday, provincial ...

According to the provincial officials statement, the accident occurred at 8:00 am local time when a fast-driven truck turtle was in the Band-e-Sabzak area outside of the provincial capital Qala-e-Naw.

A blast occurred this afternoon at the gate of a mosque in Qala-e-Naw, capital of Badghis province, local officials said.

According to Russian news agency TASS, the blast occurred in the city of Qala-e-Naw, the capital of Badghis province, which borders the Central Asian country of Turkmenistan.

FILE - Hundreds of Afghan men gather to apply for the humanitarian aid in Qala-e-Naw, Afghanistan, on Dec. 14, 2021. As winter deepens, a grim situation in Afghanistan is getting worse. Freezing ...

The first quake struck just after 2pm local time, east of the city of Qala-e-Naw, the capital of a province that the Taliban swept throug h in July on the way to capturing Kabul in August.

A vendor sits in his shop in Qala-e-Naw, in Afghanistan's Badghis province, in an October 16, 2021 file photo that shows the mud-brick buildings typical of the region, where a pair of earthquakes ...

An earthquake of magnitude 4.9 on the richer scale jolted Basar in Arunachal Pradesh in the early hours of Tuesday, said the National Center for Seismology (NCS).

They struck 41 kilometres (25 miles) east and 50 kilometres (31 miles) southeast of Qala-e-Naw, the provincial capital. Mr. Sarwari says frightened residents were fleeing their homes for safety.

Mr. Sarwari said the tremors were felt across the province. Some homes in Qala-e-Naw suffered cracks but no major injuries or widespread damage, he added.

The USGS captured two earthquakes on Monday, which hit about 50km (31mi) from Qala-e-Naw, the capital of the province.