Afghanistan Earthquake: The loss of life toll within the devastating earthquake in Afghanistan has reached 812, with tons of injured. Prime Minister Narendra Modi expressed deep sorrow over the casualties and conveyed India’s readiness to offer humanitarian help.
Taking to social media platform X, PM Modi mentioned, “Deeply saddened by the lack of lives as a result of earthquake in Afghanistan. Our ideas and prayers are with the bereaved households on this tough hour, and we want a speedy restoration to the injured. India stands prepared to offer all potential humanitarian help and reduction to these affected”.
Exterior Affairs Minister (EAM) Dr S. Jaishankar additionally expressed deep concern over the devastating earthquake. “India will lengthen help on this hour of want. Our condolences to the households of the victims. And our prayers for early restoration of the injured”, he mentioned.
In the meantime, rescue groups are navigating distant areas with restricted communication to evaluate the total extent of the harm and supply help, with officers noting that the toll is preliminary as efforts proceed, official media added.
The 6.0-magnitude earthquake struck the japanese a part of Afghanistan at 11.47 p.m. native time on Sunday, at a depth of eight km, in line with the US Geological Survey, Xinhua information company reported.
Afghanistan is very weak to earthquakes because it sits on prime of a number of fault strains the place the Indian and Eurasian plates meet. The mountainous terrain of japanese Afghanistan can be liable to landslides, making it more durable for emergency companies to hold out rescues.
A collection of earthquakes within the western components killed greater than 1,000 folks final 12 months, underscoring the vulnerability of one of many world’s poorest international locations to pure disasters.
A magnitude 6.3 earthquake had struck Afghanistan on October 7, 2023, together with sturdy aftershocks. The Taliban authorities had estimated that not less than 4,000 perished. It was the deadliest pure catastrophe to strike Afghanistan in latest reminiscence.
Over the previous decade, greater than 7,000 folks have been killed in earthquakes in Afghanistan, the UN’s Workplace for the Co-ordination of Humanitarian Affairs reviews. There are a mean of 560 deaths a 12 months from earthquakes.
An earthquake in Could 1998, in Takhar and Badakhshan provinces in northern Afghanistan, killed about 4,000 folks. Almost 100 villages and 16,000 homes had been destroyed or broken, and 45,000 folks had been made homeless. (With IANS inputs)