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  • 10/9/2023
More than 2,400 people were killed in earthquakes in Afghanistan, the Taliban administration said on Sunday (Oct 8 ), in the deadliest tremors to rock the quake-prone mountainous country in years.

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00:00 More than 2,400 people were killed in earthquakes in Afghanistan, the Taliban administration
00:06 said on Sunday, while 2,000 more have been injured in the deadliest tremors to rock the
00:12 mountainous country in years.
00:14 The Saturday quakes hit the west of the country, with one reaching a 6.3 magnitude, according
00:20 to the U.S. Geological Survey.
00:24 "Thirteen members of my family were injured and need urgent support," this area resident
00:30 said.
00:31 "Many more have been martyred, and in some places the entire family is dead.
00:35 We are so worried, and we need help."
00:37 Canan Saik, spokesman for the Ministry of Disasters, said 10 rescue teams have been
00:43 formed in addition to evacuation and rescue operations in the area.
00:48 He also pointed out a blood distribution process is going on, too, and water and shelter have
00:53 been provided for the affected people.
00:55 Some of them are sleeping outside, as the earthquakes destroyed more than 1,000 homes.
01:01 The natural disaster made an already challenging situation for the country even more so, according
01:07 to Arshad Malik, the country director for Save the Children in Afghanistan.
01:11 "We are all falling into IPC-3, which is food insecure area already because of the economic
01:20 situation and the drought.
01:22 So this is a crisis on top of another crisis which they were facing already.
01:27 The families need urgent support for now."
01:30 Another issue, the health care system, which is reliant almost entirely on foreign aid,
01:35 has faced crippling cuts in the two years since the Taliban took over, and much international
01:41 assistance which had formed the backbone of the economy was halted.
01:44 For more UN videos visit: www.un.org/webcast
01:49 Transcription by ESO; translation by —

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