At least one person died and 120 were injured after a 6.5 magnitude earthquake, followed by four aftershocks of between 5.4 and 4.4, hit western Afghanistan this Sunday, the WHO reported, in an area where More than a thousand people have died as a result of a series of seismic movements which started last week.
“A 6.4 magnitude earthquake hit Afghanistan’s Herat province again this morning. So far, more than 120 injured people have been brought to the Herat regional hospital, and many others have been taken to other hospitals in the city“, indicated the WHO on the social network X, formerly Twitter.
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The organization, whose teams work alongside hospital staff in Herat, shared images of patients receiving medical treatment outside the hospital.
The spokesman for the governor of the province of Herat, Nisar Ahmad Elyas, confirmed to EFE that At least one person died during today’s earthquakes.
The Bhaktar agency, the official media of the interim Taliban government, for its part raised the number of fatalities to two and warned that this figure “could probably increase” in the coming hours.
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A first earthquake of magnitude 6.5 was recorded in the province of Herat around eight in the morning local timeat a depth of 6.3 kilometers and about 30 kilometers north of the capital, according to the USGS.
Half an hour later, a second 5.4 magnitude earthquake again hit the province about 10 kilometers north of Herat. The province has recorded a total of four aftershocks, the last of them of magnitude 4.4 at 12:34 local time (8:04 GMT).
This Afghan region was shaken last Saturday by several earthquakes of up to 6.3 magnitude, and successive aftershocks of considerable intensity that They left about 20 villages destroyed.
Although the interim Taliban government initially estimated more than 2,400 dead and 2,000 injured, the Ministry of Disaster Management this week lowered the death toll to about a thousand.
The weak structure of the de facto Government of the Taliban and the disorganization of the agencies have complicated the rescue tasks and distribution of humanitarian aid, with Many residents of Herat camped outdoors for fear of new aftershockss and with limited access to sources of running water or food.
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