Helicopters search for survivors as earthquake kills more than 800 people
The rescuers in helicopters are looking for the ruins of distant villages in East Afghanistan for those who killed 800 people and wounded 1,800 people.
Many of them were stuck under the rubble of their homes after a earthquake hit the country’s Pakistan border on Sunday.
On the second day of Tuesday, the authorities made the mountainous land journey in the roads that were blocked by the wrecks sought with the air and the mountainous land ride in the affected areas.
The Taliban government applied for international assistance. While releasing the UN Emergency Funds, Britain promised £ 1 million ($ 1.3 million) for help.
Sunday’s earthquake was one of the most powerful hit Afghanistan in recent years. The country is very prone to earthquakes because it is located above a series of error lines where Indian and Eurasian tectonic plates meet.
In 2023, after hitting West Afghanistan near Herat, more than 1,400 people died after the 6.3 -magnitude earthquake series.
Survivors of the earthquake on Sunday, even before disaster, was brought to a hospital in Jalalabad, which was crushed with hundreds of patients a day.
Mir Zaman told BBC that he had removed his dead children from the rubble.
“It was dark. There was no light. Someone lended me a lamp and then I used a shovel to dig them and chose a ax. There was no one to help everyone because it was affected.
Two and a half years old Maiwand suffered from head injuries and blood loss.
“You can see the situation. Very tragic. Earthquake is deadly. I want doctors to treat him, heal him,” said his child’s uncle Khawat Gul.
The last earthquake hugged Afghanistan under severe drought, and the UN’s wife called an unprecedented hunger crisis.
The country also experienced great aid deductions from the US this year, especially this year, which has further reduced the help that most of these people could have. This disaster could not be worse at a worse time.
British Foreign Minister David Lammy said that the United Kingdom would “be channeled through experienced partners”, can be channeled through the UN Population Fund (UNFPA) and the international Red Cross.
India delivered 1,000 tents to Kabul, Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar wrote to X after talking to his Taliban colleague Amir Khan Muttaqi.
The Indian mission also helps to carry 15 tons of food from Kabul to Kunar province, which is badly hit by the earthquake.
China and Switzerland also promised support.
Amy Martin, leading the United Nations Human Affairs Coordination (OCHA) office in Afghanistan, said survivors would need housing, shelter and blanket.
