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Posted: 2022-08-04 05:04
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faces another natural disaster that kills hundreds. The latest is a 5.9-magnitude quake in eastern Paktica, killing up to 1,000 people.
On June 22, 2022, the AFP news agency reported that a 5.9 magnitude earthquake struck the province of Pakistan. In eastern Afghanistan as late into the morning of Wednesday, June 22, officials raised the death toll as rescuers reached the mountainous region.
"So far, our toll has been at least 920, and about 600 people have been injured," Deputy Disaster Management Minister Sharafuddin Muslim said at a news conference in Kabul.
Later, Mohammad Amin Husaifa, director-general of the Paktica Department of Information and Culture, said: “The number of deaths has increased. People keep digging holes and now the death toll has hit the thousands. and 1,500 others were injured.”
Xinhua news agency Afghanistan's Bakhtar news agency reported that the Barmal, Syrukh, Naka and Gayan districts of Pakistan It is the most affected area.
Officials have dispatched helicopters and rescue teams to the affected areas. It added that at least 25 more people were killed and 95 were injured in the nearby province of Coast.
This disaster is the country's worst. Since the Taliban regained their rule in August last year. While the life of the villagers in this area was already difficult.
United States Department of Geological Survey Revealed that the earthquake of magnitude 6.1 before being revised down to 5.9 according to the magnitude scale this time Occurred 44 kilometers southwest of the province of Coast.
Local sources said the quake had damaged dozens of homes in the region. and causing landslides in Paktia province
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