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Rescuers on helicopters are looking for ruins of remote villages in the east of Afghanistan for those who survived with a powerful earthquake who died 800 people and suffered 1800 people.
Many are afraid of the trap under the constipation of their homes after the 6.0 Magnituda earthquake, which struck on Sunday near the country’s border with Pakistan.
Authorities on Tuesday searches in the air on Tuesday, when roads were blocked by garbage and mountainous terrain in the affected areas are difficult.
The Taliban government appealed to international assistance. The UN has released emergency funds, while the UK promised 1 million pounds ($ 1.3 million) to help.
The earthquake on Sunday was one of the strongest who have suffered in Afghanistan in recent years. The country is very prone to earthquakes because it is located on a number of fault lines where Indian and Eurasian tectonic plates are found.
In 2023, more than 1,400 people were killed after a series of earthquakes 6.3 magnet, which came to Western Afghanistan, near Garat.
The earthquake survivors on Sunday were brought to a hospital in Jalalabad, which was full of hundreds of patients daily before the catastrophe.
Peace Zaman told the BBC that he pulled out his dead children himself.
“It was dark. There was no light. Someone lent me a lamp, and then I used a shovel and pick an ax to dig them. There was no one to help because all the people were killed. So many people died. Some still buried. The whole families died,” he said.
Two and a half-year-old Moiwand suffered a head and blood loss.
“You see his situation. It’s so tragically. The earthquake was deadly. I want the doctors to treat him, healed him,” said the baby’s uncle Havat Gul.
The most recent earthquake got to Afghanistan when he feels a strong drought and what the UN calls an unprecedented hunger crisis.
This year, the country has also survived the massive reduction of assistance, which further reduces the help that many of these people could get. This catastrophe could not come over the worse.
British Foreign Minister David Lami said the UK will be “sent through experienced partners”, the United Nations Fund (UNFPA) and the International Red Cross.
India delivered 1000 tents to Kabul, his Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar wrote on X after talking to his colleague by Taliban Amir Khan Mutaki.
The Indian mission also helps to transfer 15 tons of food from Kabul to the province of Kunar, which has been badly affected by the earthquake, adding that India will send more assistance.
China and Switzerland also promised support.
Survivors will need housing, shelter and blankets, said Amy Martin, headed by the United Nations Office for Humanitarian Coordination (OCHA) in Afghanistan.
