The Taliban administration says at least 2,400 people have been killed.
HERAT: Rescue workers today scrambled to pull out survivors, and the dead, from beneath the rubble two days after the northwestern city of Herat and its surroundings were struck by the deadliest earthquakes to rattle Afghanistan in years.
“The operation is still going on, still some people are being pulling out of the rubble,” the spokesman of Herat’s governor, Nissar Ahmad Elyias, told Reuters, adding that more than a dozen villages around Herat were also affected. Death tolls often rise when information comes in from more remote parts of a country where decades of war have left infrastructure in a shambles, and relief and rescue operations difficult to organise.
Italia Ultime Notizie, Italia Notizie
Similar News:Puoi anche leggere notizie simili a questa che abbiamo raccolto da altre fonti di notizie.
Death toll from Afghan earthquakes climbs to over 2,000Multiple quakes hit 35km northwest of Herat, including one with 6.3-magnitude.
Leggi di più »
Death toll from Afghan earthquakes climbs to over 2,000Multiple quakes hit 35km northwest of Herat, including one with 6.3-magnitude.
Leggi di più »
Death toll from Afghan earthquakes rises to over 2,000ISLAMABAD: More than 2,000 people have died after several strong earthquakes rattled western Afghanistan on Saturday, a spokesman for the Taliban gove...
Leggi di più »
Dust and despair in Afghan village wiped out by quakesKASHKAK: The hardscrabble village of Kashkak, a collection of mud-brick homes perched on a dusty plateau in western Afghanistan, is now a pile of rubb...
Leggi di più »
Death toll from Afghan earthquakes rises to over 2,000ISLAMABAD: More than 2,000 people have died after several strong earthquakes rattled western Afghanistan on Saturday, a spokesman for the Taliban government told German news agency (dpa) on Sunday.
Leggi di più »