More than 800 dead in earthquake in Afghanistan

At least 800 people died and about two thousand were injured after a magnitude 6 earthquake and several replicas reached east Afghanistan on Sunday night, official sources said today.

O Magnitude 6 earthquake On the Richter scale occurred at 11:47 pm local (8:17 pm in Lisbon) and was followed by at least two 5.2 magnitude shaking.

According to the US geological service, the earthquake of the earthquake was 42 kilometers from Jalalabad, the capital of Nangarhar province, and at a depth of just eight kilometers, which aggravated the level of destruction.

“In the districts of Nurgal, Sawkay, Watapur, Dara Pech and Chapi Dara, approximately 600 people died, about two thousand were injured and hundreds of houses were destroyed,” he told EFE IHSANULLAH IHSAN, Kunar Information and Culture Director, one of the affected provinces. However, according to the latest information the number Already pass the 800.

The previous balance, made by Nangarhar Province Health Services spokesman on the border with Pakistan, Ajmal Darwaish, mentioned at least nine dead and 25 injured in the village of Dar-and-Nour.

Taliban government spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid has promised, in statements released by Tolo News, that the authorities will use all the resources to help the population and that the rescue teams of provinces near the epicenter of the earthquake will provide assistance to affected.

Journalists from the France-Presse news agency (AFP) felt the tremors in Cabul for several seconds, as in Islamabad, the capital of neighboring Pakistan, 370 kilometers in a straight distance.

In addition to the main earthquake, they were registered in Pakistan tremors and replicasalthough no victim or material damage has been confirmed so far, according to Pakistani Geo TV television.

On the Richter scale, an earthquake with a magnitude between 6 and 6.9 is classified from forteit can be destructive in an area of ​​a hundred kilometers around the epicenter.

Afghanistan is often hit by earthquakes, especially in the Hindu Kush mountain range, near the junction of the European and Indian tectonic plates.

Nangarhar’s province was also affected last week by sudden floods, who killed five people and caused damage to agricultural land and residential areas.