Fatalities running into the hundreds were possible, according to a preliminary estimate.
HERAT: The death toll from an earthquake in western Afghanistan on Saturday has risen to around 120 with 1,000 more injured, disaster relief authorities said, as desperate families dug into the night to free relatives trapped in the rubble.
Groups of men with shovels dug through piles of crumbled masonry as women and children waited out in the open, with gutted homes displaying personal belongings flapping in the harsh wind. “So far, we have nothing. No blankets or anything else. We are here left out at night with our martyrs,” he said. “We were in our offices and suddenly the building started shaking,” 45-year-old resident Bashir Ahmad told AFP.
Men, women, and children stood out in the wide streets, away from tall buildings, in the moments after the first earthquake and remained wary of returning to their homes as aftershocks rumbled for hours. The USGS had earlier reported the first quake’s magnitude as 6.2. It had a shallow depth of just 14km, it said.It is the capital of Herat province, which is home to an estimated population of 1.9 million, according to 2019 World Bank data.
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