More than 800 people were killed and thousands were injured in the earthquake that hit Eastern Afghanistan today, September 1, informed the TV television television television (RTA). The number of victims from the strong earthquake hit by Eastern Afghanistan has increased to more than 800, said the Taliban government spokesman on Monday and most of the distant province of Kunar.
Meanwhile, three villages were demolished in the Kunar province. Nurgal, Chawkay and Watapur were the districts of Kunar the worst hit by an earthquake, Bakhtar reported.
The rescue teams threw themselves to seek survivors along the border of the Pakistan region Khyber Pak then, where the homes of mud and Stone were equalized by a midnight earthquake that hit a depth of 10 km (6 miles).
“So far, no foreign governments have addressed to provide support for rescue or auxiliary work,” he told Reuters.
Zabihullah Mujied, a spokesman for the Taliban government in Afghanistan, said in X that the earthquake caused a loss of life and damage to property in the eastern provinces and is of rescue efforts.
An earthquake today: an earthquake of size 6.0 rattling Afghanistan, Tremory felt in Pakistan
The 6.0 earthquake hit about 27 kilometers (17 miles east of Jalalabad, Afghanistan around midnight, an American geological survey reported. The vibration was also felt in Kabul and the neighboring Pakistana capital of Islamabad, about 370 kilometers (230 million), for a few seconds, the AFP report said.
After the inticial earthquake, three or four shocks hit in the region in size between 4 and 5.
According to an American geological survey, the earthquake epicenter, which hit at a relatively shallow depth of eight kilometers, was 27 kilometers from Jalalabad in Nangarhar province.
Shallow shocks tend to cause more damage than deep tremor.
Afghanistan is often hit by an earthquake, especially in the Hindu Mountains Kush, near the intersection of Eurasian and Indian tectonic plates.
Nangarhar province was also affected by flooding overnight on Friday to Saturday, which killed five people and destroyed crops and property, the provinces said.
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