Hundreds dead after 6.0 tremor near Jalalabad

Health officials, rescuers compete to reach distant hamlets with a long earthquake and flood history, he said.

Janan Saiq, the spokesman for the disaster management authority of the state, said in a statement by London, “Duzines in Kunar went completely.” Telegram.

The buildings in Afghanistan tend to be houses and low -rise structures in rural and external areas made of concrete and brick, mud brick and wood. Many of them are bad structure.

A resident in the Nurgal Region, one of the worst affected regions of Kunar, said that almost the entire village collapsed.

“Children are under rubble. The elderly are under rubble. Young people are under rubble,” the peasant said.

“We need help here,” he begged. “We need people to come here and join us. Let’s take off the buried people. There is no one who can remove dead bodies under the rubble.”

. Telegram He reported that hospitals in Kunar were overwhelmed and that patients were treated in corridors and courtyards.

Shahidullah Aziz, “van full of bodies come up to minutes,” he said. “Morgu is already full.”

Ministry of Health spokesman Sharafat time, many fields can not report the injured figures and the numbers are expected to change, he said.

East Afghanistan is mountainous with distant regions. The earthquake, which is only eight kilometers deep, worsening communication. Shallows tend to cause further damage.

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 with a deep explosion approaching a big 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.

The Ministry of Defense said that military rescue teams were ventilated in two provinces and added that 40 flights were 420 injured and dead.

Mücahid said that all existing resources will be used to save lives.

The earthquake was the most deadly in Afghanistan since June 2022, when the tremors of 6.1 killed at least 1000 people.

The disaster will further expand the resources of the South Asian nation, which is struggling with human crises from a sharp decline that helps a great return from neighboring countries with human crises.

“No foreign government has reached to provide support for rescue or assistance work,” he said.

It is an important border crossing between nearby Jalalabad, Afghanistan and neighbor Pakistan. According to the municipality, although it has a population of approximately 300,000, the metropolitan area is thought to be much larger.

Afghanistan is prone to fatal earthquakes, especially in Hindu Kush, where Indian and Eurasian tectonic plates meet.

Earthquakes in the West killed more than 1000 people last year and underlined the vulnerability of one of the poorest countries in the world to natural disasters.

Reuters, AP