AT LEAST 280 PEOPLE DIED IN EARTHQUAKE THAT HIT AFGHANISTHAN

  • 22/06/2022

Afghanistan's national news agency reports that a strong earthquake has caused at least 280 fatalities and numerous injuries.

In the eastern Paktika province, where rescuers are rushing to treat the injured, pictures reveal landslides and destroyed mud-built dwellings.

Helicopters have been using distant places to transport patients to hospitals.

The death toll is expected to increase, according to the local Bakhtar News Agency, which also reported that over 600 people were injured.

Many people were at home, sound asleep in their beds, when the earthquake occurred approximately 44km (27 miles) from the south-eastern city of Khost at around 01:30 local time (21:00 Tuesday GMT).

 "Unfortunately, last night there was a severe earthquake in four districts of Paktika province, which killed and injured hundreds of our countrymen and destroyed dozens of houses," government spokesman Bilal Karimi tweeted.

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