The disaster comes as Afghanistan has been enduring a severe economic crisis since the Taliban took over August, as US -led international forces were withdrawing after two decades of war.
The quake was felt over an area more than 1,000 km wide by some 285 million people in Pakistan, India, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Afghanistan and Turkmenistan, the European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre said.
A powerful earthquake struck a rugged, mountainous region of eastern Afghanistan early Wednesday, flattening stone and mud-brick homes and killing at least 1,000 people
KABUL, June 22: An earthquake of magnitude 6.1 killed 920 people in Afghanistan early on Wednesday, disaster management officials said, with more than 600 injured and the toll expected to grow as information trickles in from remote mountain villages.
ISLAMABAD: The death toll continues to rise following a powerful earthquake in Afghanistan. Taliban authorities said the Wednesday quake had killed more than 900 people and injured at least 600 others in the country’s southeast. Deputy Taliban Minister for Disaster Management Mawlawi Sharafuddin Muslim released the number of casualties at a news conference in the […]
