Rescuers continue their efforts this Tuesday, September 2 to find possible survivors in the debris of houses shaved by the earthquake that hit the east of Afghanistan, killing more than 800 people.
Of a magnitude 6 and followed by at least five heavy replicas, the earthquake has affected remote areas in the mountainous provinces of Nangarhar, Kounar and Laghman around midnight on Sunday.
The head of the province of the Kounar catastrophes management authority, the most devastated, Ehsanullah Ehsan, told AFP that “the operations continued overnight.”
“Thanks to the mobilization of our employees, as well as the residents of the surrounding districts, the investigation has not stopped,” he continued, while help has still struggled to approach certain villages cut in the world since land landslides born from the earthquake have swallowed the roads they drive.
“The priority is to help the injured, then we will distribute tents and hot meals to homeless people after losing their home,” Ehsanullah Ehsan said.
Afghanistan, whose Taliban authorities are only recognized by Moscow, is one of the poorest countries in the world. UN agencies have launched donation call campaigns and an initial amount of five million dollars from the UN World Emergency Fund was released.
London, on the other hand, announced unlocking a million pounds to help support affected families.
“Here, people are poor”
For almost 36 hours, dozens of residents of the peoples of Wadir and Mazar Dara, on the green slopes of Kounar, clearer or hand what remains of the collapsed houses to find missing.
Oubadullah Stagan ran to his village on the edge of Pakistan, more to the east, to get news from a friend and his family, residents in Wadir. “Here, people are poor, it is our duty to help them,” said AFP this 26 -year -old Afghan, he brutally out of the dream next to the earthquake, but without any damage touching his people.
In Wadir, on the other hand, “there are only stones, I don’t even know how to describe this, it is very difficult to see,” he lets go, his tied throat. Everywhere, the surroundings, after the funeral prayers, the rows of bodies, sometimes the children, wrapped in a white cover according to the Muslim rite, are placed regularly on the surface.
Throughout Monday, military helicopters followed each other to transport help and evacuate dozens of deaths and injuries. On Tuesday, once the day got up, his ballet resumed.
The Epicenter of the earthquake was located 27 km from Jalalabad, the capital of the province of Nangarhar, only eight kilometers deep, which explains the large report and the reach of the damage.
Earthquake buried in 2023
The Taliban authorities announced on Monday a provisional evaluation of 800 dead and 2,500 injured in the province of Kounar, as well as 12 dead and 255 wounded in Nangarhar. The province of Laghman also has dozens of injured, according to government spokesman Zabihullah Mjahid.
Afghanistan is frequently beaten by earthquakes, especially in the Hindu Kouch mountain range, near the crossing of Euroasian and Indian tectonic plates.
Since 1900, the northeast of this country has experienced 12 earthquakes of a magnitude greater than 7, according to Brian Baptie, a seismologist of the British Geological Service.
After their return to power in 2021, the Taliban faced another earthquake of magnitude: in 2023, in the Hérat region, at the other end of Afghanistan, on the border with Iran, more than 1,500 people had been killed and more than 63,000 destroyed homes.
This earthquake of magnitude of 6.3 had been the deadliest in this country, one of the poorest in the world, in more than 25 years.
Source: BFM TV
