Powerful Earthquake Kills Over 1,000 In Eastern Afghanistan
- 23-Jun-2022
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Kabul: A strong earthquake struck eastern Afghanistan early Wednesday, killing more than 1,000 people, according to officials from the country's ruling Taliban regime. Muhammad Amin Hafiza, the head of information and culture in the hard-hit Paktika province said, the death toll in his province alone had climbed over 1,000, with more than 1,500 others wounded.
He further said that some families have completely vanished, as images emerged of collapsed homes across the region.
Information was slow to emerge after the magnitude-5.9 struck Afghanistan's Khost and Paktika provinces at around 1:30 a.m. local time. The quake was felt across a vast swath of the country, including in the capital Kabul.
The epicentre was about 44 km from Khost city in Afghanistan and was at a depth of 51 km, said the US Geological Survey (USGS). The European Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC) asserted that people in Pakistan and India also felt tremors.
