Afghanistan’s state-run information company is reporting that at the very least 155 individuals have been killed in an earthquake within the nation’s jap Paktika province
Afghanistan’s state-run information company is reporting that at the very least 155 individuals have been killed in an earthquake within the nation’s jap Paktika province
An earthquake struck jap Afghanistan early Wednesday, killing at the very least 255 individuals, authorities stated.
Information remained scarce on the magnitude 6 temblor that struck Paktika province, however it comes because the worldwide group largely has left Afghanistan after the Taliban takeover of the nation final yr amid the chaotic withdrawal of the U.S. navy from the longest struggle in its historical past.
That seemingly will complicate any aid efforts for this nation of 38 million individuals.
The state-run Bakhtar information company reported the loss of life toll and stated rescuers had been arriving by helicopter. The information company’s director-general, Abdul Wahid Rayan, wrote on Twitter that 90 homes have been destroyed in Paktika and dozens of individuals are believed trapped beneath the rubble.
Footage from Paktika province close to the Pakistan border confirmed victims being carried into helicopters to be airlifted from the realm. Images extensively circulating on-line from the province confirmed destroyed stone homes, with residents choosing by clay bricks and different rubble.
Bakhtar posted footage of a resident receiving IV fluids from a plastic chair exterior the rubble of his house and others sprawled on gurneys.
“A severe earthquake shook four districts of Paktika province, killing and injuring hundreds of our countrymen and destroying dozens of houses,” Bilal Karimi, a deputy spokesman for the Taliban authorities, individually wrote on Twitter. “We urge all aid agencies to send teams to the area immediately to prevent further catastrophe.”
Neighboring Pakistan’s Meteorological Department put the earthquake at a magnitude 6.1. Tremors had been felt within the Pakistani capital, Islamabad, and elsewhere within the jap Punjab province.
The European seismological company, EMSC, stated the earthquake’s tremors had been felt over 500 kilometers (310 miles) by 119 million individuals throughout Afghanistan, Pakistan and India.
Mountainous Afghanistan and the bigger area of South Asia, the place the Indian tectonic plate collides with the Eurasian plate to the north, has lengthy been weak to devastating earthquakes.
In 2015, a significant earthquake that struck the nation’s northeast killed over 200 individuals in Afghanistan and neighboring northern Pakistan.
Source: www.thehindu.com
