800 People Killed In Afghanistan Earthquake

ACCEPTANCE, Afghanistan (AP) – According to figures provided by the Taliban government on Monday, a strong earthquake killed 800 people and wounded more than 2,500 in East Afghanistan to investigate their loved ones through the desperate Afghans Molosis.

On Sunday, a 6.0 -magnitude earthquake, hit the towns in Kunar province near the city of Jalalabad in the neighboring Nangarhar state and caused great damage.

The US Geological Survey said that the earth’s surrounding at 23:47 is east-north-east-east-east-east-east. It was only 8 kilometers (5 miles) depth. Shallows tend to cause further damage. A few aftershocks watched jolts.

The images showed that the savior took on stretchers from collapsed buildings and helicopters, because people were excavated crazy with their hands.

Zabihullah Mujahid, the chief spokesman of the Taliban government, said at a press conference on Monday that the death fee rose to at least 800. He said most of the wounded were in Kunar.

East Afghanistan is mountainous with distant regions.

Earthquake communications worsened. The blocked roads force help employees to walk for four or five hours to reach the survivors. Duzines flights at and outside Nangarhar Airport were active by carrying the wounded to hospitals.

A surviving person saw that he had collapsed in front of the eyes of the houses and screamed for help.

Sadiqullah, who lives in the Maza Dara region of Nurgal, said that he was awakened by a deep explosion that looks like an approaching storm. Like many Afghan, he uses only one name.

He ran to the place where their children slept and saved three. When the room fell on him, he was about to go back to get the rest of his family.

“I was half hardened and I couldn’t go out,” he said to the Associated Press from the Nangarhar Hospital. “My wife and two sons were killed and my father was injured and with me in the hospital.

Im I felt like the whole mountain was trembling, dedi he said.

Speaker of the Ministry of Health Sharafat time, rescue operations continue and Kunar, Nangarhar and the capital of the capital came to the region, he said.

Time said that many regions could not report the injured figures and that the deaths and injuries were reported as “the numbers are expected to change”. Chief spokesman Mücahid said that helicopters reached some areas, but it was difficult to travel.

“There are some villages where the wounded and the dead are not saved from the rubble, so the numbers may increase,” he said to the journalists.

United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi said the earthquake intensified existing human challenges in Afghanistan and called on international donors to support help efforts.

“This adds death and destruction to other challenges, including drought and millions of Afghan’s forced return from neighboring countries.

An earthquake of 6.3 magnitude hit Afghanistan on October 7, 2023Then strong aftershocks. The Taliban government estimated that at least 4,000 people died in this earthquake.

The UN gave a burden of death about 1,500 lower. In recent memories, hitting Afghanistan was the most deadly natural disaster.

According to the International Recovery Committee, the last earthquake would be the üce the scale of humanitarian needs ğı, which was caused by the 2023 disaster.

Aid Agency Country Director Sherin Ibrahim said that all roads and communities were interrupted from accessing nearby towns or hospitals and reported that 2,000 losses were reported in the first 12 hours.

Ibrahim, “Although we can behave quickly, we are afraid of the additional tension on the general humanitarian intervention in Afghanistan,” he said. ” Global financing segments They significantly prevented our ability to respond to the ongoing human crisis. “

International Red Cross Federation and Red Crescent associations said in a statement, emergency needs search and rescue support, emergency health and medical equipment, food, clean water and isolated communities to restore road access to access to access to the community, he said.

The earthquake on Sunday night was felt in some parts of Pakistan, including the capital Islamabad. There was no injured or damage report.

Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif said he was deeply upset by the events in Afghanistan. “Our hearts go to the victims and their families. We are ready to expand all possible support in this regard,” he said.

There is Pakistan Tens of thousands of Afghan threw Last year, many have been living in the country as a refugee for decades.

At least 1.2 million Afghan According to a report of the UNHCA in June, this year has been forced to return from Iran and Pakistan so far.

– Associated Press journalist Suzan Fraser contributed to reporting from Ankara and Türkiye.