Authorities confirm more than 1,400 dead and around 3,100 injured after Afghanistan earthquake
On Tuesday, rescue teams continued searching through the rubble for survivors in the remote, mountainous provinces of Nangarhar, Kunar, and Laghman, near the border with Pakistan.
Taliban security personnel carry an earthquake victim.
More than 1,400 people were killed and around 3,100 injured in the magnitude 6 quake that struck eastern Afghanistan over the weekend, authorities reported Tuesday.
Government spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid said in a statement, cited by AFP, that 1,411 people have died and 3,124 were injured in Kunar province alone, the worst-hit area. He added that more than 5,000 homes were destroyed.
Afghanistan works to find survivors
On Tuesday, rescue teams continued searching through the rubble for survivors in the remote, mountainous provinces of Nangarhar, Kunar, and Laghman, near the border with Pakistan.
Ehsanullah Ehsan, head of Kunar province’s disaster management authority, told AFP, “Operations continued throughout the night; they did not stop.”
However, some of the hardest-hit villages remain inaccessible because of roadblocks, the UN migration agency said.
Afghanistan experiences frequent earthquakes
That 6.3-magnitude quake in 2023 killed more than 1,500 people and destroyed over 63,000 homes.
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