Hundreds of other corpses were recovered from houses in mountain villages, which were destroyed by a large earthquake in Afghanistan at the beginning of this week and increased the fatalities to more than 2,200, a spokesman for the Taliban government said on Thursday.
The flat quake of 6.0 magnitude hit the mountainous and remote east of the country late Sunday to achieve villages and to catch people under rubble. Most of the victims were in the province of Kunar, where people usually live along steep river valleys in wood and mud houses that are separated from high mountains.
According to an assessment published by the Islamic aid organization, around 98 percent of the buildings in the province were damaged or destroyed by the Islamic charity. Aid agencies said they are urgently staff and supplies to take care of the region’s survivors.
In Afghanistan, more than 1,000 people were killed and entire villages were wiped out-out of an earthquake of 6.0 magnites. The CBC seismologist Johanna Wagstaffe reports why this “moderate” quake became catastrophic and how geology, building regulations and remote villages together make the disaster so fatal.
Muhammad Israel said that the quake had triggered a landslide who buried his home, his cattle and things in Kunar. “All rocks came off the mountain,” he said. “I hardly got my children out … The earthquake tribes still happen. It is impossible to live there.”
Israel was in a Medical Nations Medical Camp in Nurgal, one of the worst affected districts of Kunar.
“The situation is also bad for us here,” he said. “We have no protection and live under an open sky.”
Search and rescue continuously
According to previous estimates, around 1,400 people were killed. Taliban’s spokesman, Hamdullah Fitrat, said on Thursday that the updated number of fatalities was 2,205 and that the search and rescue efforts were continued.
“Tents have been set up for humans and the delivery of first aid and emergency supplies continues,” said Fitrat.
The rough terrain hinders the auxiliary measures. The Taliban authorities used helicopters and triggered army brands to help survivors. Aid workers have reported for hours to reach villages that were cut off by landslides and rock.
In the late Thursday, a quake of 5.6 in the province of Nangarhar, which south of the province of the hardest Kunar province, rattled, Jalalabad, although there were no direct reports on victims or damage.
The financing cuts also affect the reaction. The Norwegian Refugee Council said that he had fewer than 450 employees in Afghanistan compared to 1,100 in 2023, the date of the country’s last major quake. The Council had only one warehouse and no emergency stock.
“We have to buy articles as soon as we have received the financing, but this will potentially take weeks and people are now in need,” said Maisam Shafiey, the council of communication and interests at the Council in Afghanistan. “We only have $ 100,000 available to support the emergency reaction efforts. This leaves an immediate funding gap of 1.9 million US dollars.”
“People have great pain”
Dr. Shamshair Khan, who took part in the injured in the UN camp in Nurgal, said that his own condition worsened after seeing the suffering of others.
“Neither these drugs are enough nor these services,” he said. “These people need more medicine and tents. They need food and clean drinking water. These people are in great pain.”
The Qatar Minister of State for International Cooperation, Maryam Bint Ali Bin Nasser Al-Misnad, came in Kabul on Wednesday to monitor the provision of help for earthquake victims.
She is the first female minister who visited Afghanistan on a humanitarian mission since the Taliban has confiscated power in 2021 and the first high -ranking foreign civil servant since the quake.
Aid organizations describe the latest disaster as a crisis within a crisis. Afghanistan already fought with drought, a weak economy and the recent return of around two million Afghans from neighboring countries.
Rubers and flattened houses remain in villages in the east of Afghanistan, after an earthquake of 6.0 was hit in the inclination on Sunday, with a dugout of 5.2 in the region on Tuesday. Survival spoke about the shattering ordeal, with a man recovering in a hospital in Jalalabad and said five relatives were killed and five more were injured when the quake destroyed their house.
