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About a thousand people, more exactly about 920, died and 610 were injured after an earthquake in Afghanistan, which was felt in the early hours of this Wednesday.
The update on the number of victims was made this morning by Mawlawi Sharafuddin Muslim, Afghan Deputy Minister of State with the portfolio of Disaster and Emergency Management in the country, reports the Afghan television station TOLOnews.
Mawlawi Sharafuddin Muslim, Deputy Minister of State for Disaster Management, told a news conference that “920 people were killed and 610 injured” in last night’s earthquake that hit several provinces in Afghanistan.#TOLOnews pic.twitter.com/6By9OPvAks
— TOLOnews (@TOLOnews) June 22, 2022
The earthquake had a magnitude of 6.1 on the Richter scale and the number of dead and injured is still being evaluated and may increase in the coming hours.
Earlier, Afghanistan’s state news agency, the Bakhtar News Agency, had estimated the death toll from the quake at 280. Even then, however, authorities warned of the possibility that the number of deaths counted would increase throughout the day.
#RIP: Some 280 people lost their lives and more than 600 were injured after the earthquake in #Paktika Y #khost province on Tuesday night, local officials said #BNA.
The death toll is likely to rise, local officials and residents said. pic.twitter.com/ca10Y8w476— Bakhtar News Agency (@BakhtarNA) June 22, 2022
Afghan television station TOLOnews had also previously given a lower estimate, saying authorities in the Paktika province region had detailed that more than 250 people had been killed and more than 200 injured in this part of the country alone, the most affected by the earthquake
The authorities of the city of Khost, also quoted by the TOLOnews station, would have indicated at least eight dead and more than seven injured, which would add up to at least 258 dead and at least 207 injured due to the earthquake. It was eventually confirmed that the numbers were much higher.
255 человек погибли и 500 получили ранения в результате землетрясения в четырех уездах прок.
Местные власти сообщили, что вертолеты и машины скорой помощи прибыли в районы проишествий из соседних провинций и столицы, чтобы доставить раненых в больницу. pic.twitter.com/sannYf9UTl— Bakhtar News Agency (Ru) (@BakhtarNa_Ru) June 22, 2022
Later, around 10:00 a.m. in mainland Portugal, the Afghan government news agency, Bakhtar News Agency, announced that in one of the districts of Paktika province, Gayan, at least 216 people had died and 300 were injured.
[Este foi “um tipo de sismo muito perigoso”, explicou à Rádio Observador o sismólogo João Duarte Fonseca — oiça aqui:]
The epicenter of the earthquake was felt about 44 kilometers from the city of Khost, near the border with Pakistan, Reuters wrote this morning. The city has almost a million inhabitants and is the largest in the southeast of the country. Al Jazeera, for its part, added that the Paktika region was the most affected by the impact of the earthquake.
The earthquake was felt within a radius of 500 kilometers, in regions of Afghanistan, Pakistan and India (including Kabul and Islamabad, capitals of the first two countries) inhabited by about 119 million people, reported the European Mediterranean Seismic Center (ESMC). ) in the meantime. ), a non-governmental scientific organization.
Source: Observadora
