At least 920 killed after 6.1 magnitude Earthquake

 

Afghanistan - 6.1 Magnitude Earthquake:

Homes are destroyed within the province of Paktika and dozens of individuals are believed to be cornered underneath the rubble.

At least 920 people are killed and hundreds additional burned when a 6.1 magnitude earthquake in southeastern Asian nation, officals have aforesaid.

The quake smitten regarding twenty seven miles (44km) from the town of Khost, on the point of the country's border with Pakistan, and was at a depth of thirty one.6 miles (51km), consistent with the US geologic Survey.

At least 920 people are killed and 600 hurt, AN Afghan emergency official aforesaid."The cost is probably going to rise as a number of the villages are in remote areas within the mountains and it'll take your time to gather details," interior ministry official Salahuddin Ayubi aforesaid.

The majority of the fatalities were within the province of Paktika. Footage from the realm, close to the Pakistan border, showed victims being carried into helicopters to be airlifted from the realm.

Bakhtar press agency announce pictures of destroyed stone homes and therefore the burned being treated in hospital.

Its director-general, Abdul Wahid Rayan, wrote on Twitter that ninety homes were destroyed within the province of Paktika and dozens of individuals are believed to be cornered underneath the detritus.

"A severe earthquake cask four districts of Paktika province, killing and injuring many our countrymen and destroying dozens of homes," tweeted Bilal Karimi, a deputy spokesperson for the Taliban government.

"We urge all aid agencies to send groups to the realm like a shot to stop additional catastrophe."It comes amid AN economic and humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan since the Taliban took management in August last year and therefore the withdrawal of US-led international forces when 20 years of war.

Its already fragile economy, heavily enthusiastic about aid, has been crippled by Western sanctions on its banking sector and billions of cuts in aid.

Tremors were felt over a variety of around 310 miles (500km) by regarding 119 million folks in West Pakistan, Asian nation and India, the eu Mediterranean geological science Centre (EMSC) aforesaid in an exceedingly tweet.

They extended to the Afghan capital Kabul, still afghan in Pakistan, consistent with witness accounts denote on the EMSC web site and by Twitter users.

"Strong and long jolts," one witness from Kabul wrote on the EMSC web site. "It was sturdy," aforesaid another witness from Peshawar in northwestern West Pakistan.

There were no immediate reports of harm or casualties in Pakistan.