Afghanistan earthquake: Taliban appeals for international aid as rescue teams search for survivors | Afghanistan

Taliban called for international aid as Afghanistan reel from an earthquake that killed more than 800 people and left thousands of wounded people.

Savior, Sunday, 6.0 -magnitude earthquake after the earthquake on Monday searched the night for survivors. Many were stuck under the wreckage of simple mud and stone houses placed in steep valleys.

Savior, coarse mountainous land and hard weather due to the fight to reach remote areas. The worst of destruction was in Kunar province that limits Pakistan.

Some of their children, before burying their bodies by the peasants wrapped in white covers, while the helicopters ferry to the hospitals.

“Rooms and walls collapsed… Killing some children and injuring others,” 22 -year -old Zafar Khan Gojar said, with his brother, his leg broke, and was released from Nurgal to Jalalabad.

The disaster will further expand the resources of the Taliban administration of the nation in which the war has shattered, and will struggle with crises from a sharp decline in foreign aid to the deportation of hundreds of thousands of Afghan by neighboring countries.

The spokesman of the Ministry of Health in Kabul, Sharafat Zaman, called for international aid to combat the destruction of the 6 -magnitude earthquake shot at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) at a depth of 10 km (6 miles).

“We need this because many people have lost their lives and home,” Reuters said to Reuters.

Management spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid said the earthquake killed 812 people in the eastern provinces of Kunar and Nangarhar.

Ziaul Haq Mohammadi, a student at the al-Falah University in East Jalalabad, was studying at home when he hit the earthquake. He said he was trying to stand up, but he was overthrown by the power of tremor.

Mohammadi, “We spent the whole night in fear and concern because there may be another earthquake at any moment,” he said.

The rescuers were fighting to reach distant mountainous areas cut from mobile networks on the Pakistan border.

Reuters, “the earthquake area was affected by heavy rain in the last 24-48 hours in the last 24-48 hours, so the risk of landslides and rock slides is also very important-so most of the roads are not crossed,” he said.

Rescue teams and officials are trying to quickly throw animal carcasses to minimize the risk of contamination to water resources.

Authorities, rescue teams may increase the loss of more insulated losses, he said.

“All of our teams have been mobilized to accelerate the help, so comprehensive and full support can be provided, Abdul said Abdul Mateen Qanee, spokesman for the Ministry of Health.

Reuters television footage of the affected helicopters were shown, residents of the security forces and health officials wounded in a long earthquake and flood history to move to the ambulances.

Ministry of Defense, 420 wounded and dead with 40 flights to the region, said the military rescue teams are moving towards the region.

The earthquake polished three villages in Kunar with significant damage to others. He added that at least 610 people were killed in Nangarhar in Kunar.

Some villagers sat crying in the middle of the pile remains of their homes. Others began to clean the wrecks manually or carried out the wounded on temporary stretchers.

A victim told journalists, “Mazar Dara in this Nurgal region. The whole village was destroyed,” he said. “Children and the elderly are stuck under rubble. We need emergency help.”

Another survivor said: “We need ambulances, we need doctors, we need everything to save the wounded and save the dead.”

The Taliban was the third largest deadly earthquake of Afghanistan, triggering a deduction in international financing, which constitutes a large part of the government financing, as foreign forces withdrew in 2021.

Diplomats and aid officials, as well as crises in other parts of the world, Taliban’s aid workers for those who have a donor’s policies, including pavements, said the disappointment of donor encourages deductions in financing.

Even humanitarian aid aiming to skip political institutions to serve urgent needs fell from $ 3.8 billion in 2022 to $ 767 million this year.

On Monday, the UK launched an emergency financing support for those affected by the latest earthquakes, and allowed the assistance to channel the current Taliban administration through its partners through its partners.

In a statement, the government said that Britain’s aid of 1 million pounds ($ 1.35 million) will be divided to offer critical health and emergency materials to Afghans in the most affected regions between the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and the International Red Cross (IFRC).

“The British Foreign Minister David Lammy said,” The British are affiliated to the people of Afghanistan and this will help our partners to offer critical health and emergency materials to the most difficult ones. ” He said.

Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman, “Afghanistan’s needs and capacity” is ready to provide disaster assistance, he said.

Meanwhile, Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar said that he had delivered 1,000 family tents to Kabul and carried 15 tons of food material to Kunar with more relief material than India, which started on Tuesday.

The US Foreign Ministry Office South and Central Asian Affairs Office wished an condolences to X on Monday for the loss of life in the earthquake, but did not respond immediately when asked whether the US would provide any help.

With Reuters and Agency France-Presse