Afghanistan earthquake kills children to 155

Gayan, Afghanistan (AP) — At least 155 children were killed in a catastrophic earthquake in southeastern Afghanistan last week, the United Nations will focus on 20 years ..

The UN humanitarian organization, OCHA, injured another 250 children on Sunday in a magnitude 6 earthquake that struck mountain villages in Pactica and Host states near the Pakistani border. He said he had flattened the house. Causes a landslide. A few days after the quake, most of the children died in the Gayan district, which was hit hard by Paktika.

The Taliban ruler in Afghanistan has killed 1,150 people and injured hundreds more. Meanwhile, the United Nations has provided a slightly lower estimate of 770, but global groups have warned. The numbers may still go up.

The quake left an estimated 65 children orphans or unaccompanied, the United Nations Humanitarian Agency added.

The latest disasters that shook Afghanistan after decades of war, hunger, poverty and the economic crisis have challenged the Taliban's ability to govern and support the international community.

Foreign aid stopped virtually overnight when the Taliban seized power in Afghanistan as the United States and its NATO allies withdrew their troops last August. The World Government has accumulated sanctions, suspended bank transfers, further frozen Afghanistan's currency reserves, denied Taliban approval, allowed more comprehensive governance, and demanded respect for human rights.

Former rebels resisted pressure, imposing restrictions on the freedom of women and girls who remember first taking power in the late 1990s, causing a western backlash. rice field.

Recognizing their limitations, the Taliban appealed for foreign aid. The United Nations and a number of domestic support agencies have begun to try to protect Afghanistan from the brink of hunger. Despite funding and access constraints, aid convoys have flowed into remote areas.

The UN Children's Fund said Monday that it is working to reunite children who have been separated from their families in the turmoil of the earthquake. We have also set up a clinic to provide mental health and psychological support to children in Gayan who have been traumatized by the disaster.