Earthquake devastates western Afghanistan, killing over 2,000
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — One day after powerful earthquakes struck western Afghanistan, officials said Sunday that more than 2,000 people were killed and around 10,000 injured, with the death toll certain to rise.
“Many are still trapped,” said Haji Janan Saiq, a spokesman for the Taliban-run Ministry of Disaster Management who announced the toll in a news conference. Several villages have “completely perished.”
Aid groups and hospital officials provided a lower number of confirmed fatalities. The Afghan Red Crescent Society cautioned that it remained difficult to verify the full extent of the damage, with a spokesman for the aid group, Irfanullah Sharafzoi, putting the death toll at 400. Muhammad Talib Shahid, a health official in the western Afghan city of Herat, said 250 bodies of victims had been brought to hospitals close to the epicenter of the quake. Over 600 people have been hospitalized, he said.
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