Aftershocks rattle Afghanistan when the earthquake kills 1,150 people

 quake struck the area, destroying and killing hundreds of mudbrick houses. According to thestate media that struck the affected area, 1,150 people.

Pakistan's Meteorological Bureau reports a magnitude 4.2 earthquake in southeastern Afghanistan, and state-owned Bakhtar News Agency kills five more in the devastated Gayan district. He reportedly robbed and injured 11 people.

A swirling economy with 38 million people already in poverty for millions and more than one million children at risk of severe malnutrition It was in the midst of a crisis.

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Magnitude 6 Earthquake Wednesday, which struck the night when people were asleep, left thousands of people without shelter and focused on the complex needs of the country. Afghanistan remains separated from the international monetary system, and aid groups lament that they have to pay local staff a bag of cash to hand over as countries refuse to trade directly with the Taliban. ..

Local aid groups such as the Red New Moon Company and the World Food Program feed the most vulnerable families to food and tents. Intervened to help with the urgent needs of the Sleeping Mats in Paktika and neighboring Horst, the epicenter of the earthquake.

Still, the inhabitants seemed to be primarily themselves to deal with the aftermath, as their new Taliban-led government and international aid community struggled to bring help. The rough mountain road leading to the disaster area was aggravated by damage and rain. Villagers are looking for survivors, burying the dead and digging rubble by hand.

Bakhtar News Agency Taliban said Friday that the death toll had increased to 1,150 from previous reports of 1,000 deaths. Abdul Wahid Rayan said at least 1,600 people were injured.

The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs has killed 770 people.

It is not clear how the death toll has been achieved, given the difficulty of accessing and communicating with the affected villages. Both severe casualties will make earthquake Afghanistan the most deadly in 20 years.

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State media 3,000 Houses near the door were reportedly destroyed or severely damaged. In the Gayan district, the earthquake damaged at least 1,000 homes. Another 800 homes in the Spera district of Khost were also damaged.

Modern buildings can withstand magnitude 6 earthquakes elsewhere, but mudbrick houses and landslide-prone mountains in Afghanistan make such earthquakes more dangerous.

Roads in this area are poorly paved and difficult to navigate, so they are only 175 km from Kabul, but some villages in the Gayan district can be reached in a day.

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Village in Gayan district So, the AP news journalist who toured spent hours on Thursday in a lifted timber with a collapsed roof that spent the previous rainy night pulling stones apart by hand, looking for a missing loved one. The family that was there. Taliban fighters patrolled vehicles in the area, but only a few helped dig up the rubble.

There were few signs of heavy equipment and only one bulldozer was in transit. Ambulances circulated, but other help to life was largely unclear. Gayan's six-year-old boy cried, saying his parents, two sisters, and one brother were all dead. He escaped from the ruins of his house and evacuated with his neighbor.

Many international aid agencies withdrew from Afghanistan when the Taliban seized power last August. The remaining people are struggling to get medicines, food and tents in distant earthquake-stricken areas. UN agencies are also facing a US $ 3 billion shortage of funds for Afghanistan this year.

Germany, Norway and several other countries quake They announced that they were sending aid to, but they emphasized that they would only work through UN agencies, not the Taliban, which the government has not yet officially acknowledged. Countries are calling on the Taliban to address human rights issues first, with a focus on the rights and freedoms of women and girls in Afghanistan.

The International Rescue Commission states that it has emergency medical teams in two states to provide important first aid and cash assistance to families who have lost their homes and livelihoods in the earthquake. I did. The organization, which has been operating in Afghanistan since 1988, is ultimately seeking an international roadmap to release Afghanistan's foreign exchange reserves.

Last year, the Taliban took over the country as the U.S. prepared to withdraw its troops, and the Biden administration was about to Frozen US $ 9.5 billion. Afghanistan's central bank, located in a US bank, is hampering the efforts of new rulers to pay civil servants and import goods.

Food and other necessities trucks arrived from Pakistan, and humanitarian-filled planes landed from Iran and Qatar. A humanitarian aid team in India and a technical team to the capital Kabul will coordinate the provision of humanitarian aid. India states that its aid will be handed over to UN agencies on the ground and the Afghan Red Crescent Societies.

In Paktika, an earthquake struck a seriously poor area. It is home to a few fertile areas surrounded by rugged mountains.

According to forecasts quoted by the United Nations and others, the poverty rate can reach 97% of the population and the unemployment rate can reach 40% this year.

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