The Afghan authorities raised this Wednesday to 920 the number of deaths and more than 600 those injured by the earthquake of 5.9 degrees recorded last night in eastern Afghanistan, as the search for survivors in the biggest catastrophe since the Taliban came to power.
The new number of deaths and injuries in the earthquake that affected above all two provinces in eastern Afghanistan, on the border with Pakistan, It was facilitated at a press conference by the Deputy Minister for Disaster Management, Mawlavi Sharfuddin Muslim.
پکتیکا کې زلزله ځپلو ته د ملي دفاع وزارت د مرستندویه او روغتیايي دویم
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اعزام تیم امدد رسانی و صحی وزارت دفاع ملی به آسیب دیدگان زلزله در پکای pic.twitter.com/0TgeW2y1re
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“The Ministry of Defense has sent a medical and relief team to Paktika. Team of the Ministry of Defense and National Health in victims of the earthquake “, translates the message of the government of the Islamic Emirate.
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The earthquake was recorded on Tuesday night about 46 kilometers from the city of Khostnear the border between Pakistan and Afghanistan, according to the United States Geological Survey (USGS), which also reported a 4.5 degree aftershock.
A spokesman for the Afghan Ministry of Response and Disaster Management, Mohammad Nasim Haqqani, confirmed to Efe for the time being more than a hundred dead, “including women and children”, while announcing that a meeting was held with the competent authorities to provide help to those affected.
Images shared on social networks show numerous houses destroyed and dozens of people helping to rescue victims amid the rubble in the mountainous area.
انا لله وانا الیه راجعون
تیره شپه پکتیکا ولایت څلورو ولسواليو: ګیان ، نکه برمل او زېړوک کې ، د خوست په سپیره ولسوالۍ شاوخوا سیمو سیمو کې شدیده شدیده #زلزله شوې چې سلګونو خلګو ته یې مرګ ژوبله اړولې. #Paktika
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“Last night, four districts of Paktika province: Gyan, Naka, Barmal and Zherokas well as the Spera district of Khost and the surrounding areas, suffered death and serious injuries,” cites the tweet that shares a video of the affected area.
For now relief work continues and according to the authorities the number of victims will increase drastically as the damage is devastating.
