Afghans seek quake survivors

KABUL, Afghanistan -- Residents used shovels, picks and their bare hands Saturday to search for survivors in the rubble of an earthquake in northern Afghanistan. Officials said at least 50 people were killed and 200 were injured.

Gen. Haidar, the senior military commander of Baglan province, appealed for aid, especially bulldozers and other heavy equipment to help dig bodies from the rubble and to search for survivors from Friday's quake.

He said much of the area some 100 miles northeast of Kabul had been destroyed. The magnitude-5.8 earthquake on Friday morning followed a more intense tremor on March 25 that killed up to 1,000 people.

He said the quake destroyed several villages and brought down part of a mountain, blocking a valley road in the Hindu Kush mountains.

U.N. helicopters flew emergency aid teams into several affected villages to assess the damage and deliver medical supplies.