The dead number in the earthquake of Afghanistan Registered last Sunday in the east of the country, the 2,205 people reached Thursday, becoming the most lethal earthquake of the last decades in Afghan territory.
The Taliban raised the number of deaths to that figure on Thursday and reported that 3,640 people were injured in the earthquake.
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The de facto government of Afghanistan indicated that rescue work continued four days after the earthquake, although the hope of finding people alive under the rubble is increasingly scarce and the efforts are now focused on the arrival of humanitarian aid to those affected who, on many occasions, have become homeless and homeless.
Previously, the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) had warned that the earthquake has hit a country “to the limit”, which drags multiple humanitarian crises for decades, with its overflowing local resources and insufficient financing to deal with an emergency of the scale of the earthquake that mainly affected the remote province of Kunar and other nearby regions, on the border with Pakistan.
The earthquake last Sunday is the most serious that Afghanistan has suffered in recent decades, surpassing the one that occurred in October 2023 in the western province of Herat, where more than 1,500 people died, according to the figures of the Taliban government.
The medical teams deployed in the zero zone of the earthquake face from Sunday to an incessant flow of skull fractures, broken back and crushed members, with minimal resources and with virtually impossible access to the villages where the most seriously injured are found.
This Thursday, a new earthquake of magnitude 4.7 affected the area punished by the first earthquake without the moment having been reported in terms of losses of human lives.
The earthquake has put to the limit the operational capacity of the Taliban regime, which has deployed in the area its main resource, its soldiers.
At the points where the State has not yet been able to arrive, civil society has begun to organize, with volunteers walking for hours to reach the zero zone of the earthquake, supplying the decreased technical and emergency personnel, which abandoned the country massively in 2021, when the fundamentalists resumed power in Kabul.
For his part, the Minister of Foreign Affairs Afghano, Mawlawi Amir Khan Muttaqi, has held telephone conversations with the foreign ministers of their neighbors Turkmenistan and Iran, who transferred their condolences to Kabul and secured the provision of humanitarian aid to Afghanistan.
