Afghanistan: 5.6 Magnitude Tremor in the western province of Badghis, 26 Killed
New Delhi: At least 26 people died after an earthquake jolted western Afghanistan on Monday. The local authority has informed that An earthquake rocked Western Afghanistan on Monday, killing more than 25 people and destroying hundreds of homes.
The local authorities shared the photos of an earthquake which showed the situation in the region after the tremor. The 5.6 magnitude tremor shook the western province of Badghis.
“Unfortunately, our initial reports show that 26 people, including women and children, have been killed and four others injured. The Mujahideen have reached some of the affected areas – but Badghis is a mountainous province, the number of casualties might go up,” said Baz Mohammad Sarwari, the director of Information and Culture of the Badghis provincial administration.
The media report stated that Qadis was one of the areas that remain worst affected due to a devastating drought and received an insignificant benefit from the international aids that it has been receiving in the past 20 years.
“Afghanistan is already in the grip of a humanitarian disaster, worsened by the Taliban takeover of the country in August when Western countries froze international aid and access to assets held abroad,” the report mentioned.
In 2015, a powerful earthquake of 7.5 magnitudes on the Richter scale had left nearly 280 people dead with its epicenter in the mountain range which ripped across South Asia and caused widespread deaths in Pakistan.
The mighty quake had killed 12 young Afghan girls in a stampede as they were trying to escape the shaking school building.
Afghanistan is an earthquake-prone country. Areas especially in the Hindu Kush mountain range, which lies near the junction of the Eurasian and Indian tectonic plates are highly vulnerable to quakes.
(_Vinayak Barot)
