Afghanistan has encountered a 20 -year "fatal" earthquake, local officials: at least 1,000 people have died

[Global Times Special reporter Cheng Yijun Global Times special reporter Wang Yi] East Afghanistan encountered the most fatal earthquake since 2002. The earthquake is high, and the European-Mediterranean seismic center said that about 119 million people in Pakistan, Afghanistan and India have a sense of earthquake. Later that day, officials of Parkerca, who were affected by earthquake disasters, revealed that at least 1,000 people died in the province and were injured by 1,000 people in the province.

Earthquake occurred in the early morning

According to the US Geological Survey (USGC) earthquake information network, the earthquake occurred at 1:24 on the 22nd of the local time in Afghanistan. The epicenter was 46 kilometers southwest of Horster, the capital of Horst in eastern Afghanistan, with a depth of 10 kilometers. USGC initially determined that the earthquake was 6.1, and then adjusted to level 5.9.

"A serious earthquake shook four regions in Parkika Province, causing hundreds of compatriots and dozens of houses." Crimi, deputy spokesperson for the temporary government of Afghanistan, wrote on Twitter on the 22nd. Parkerca, adjacent to Horster Province is the hardest hit area. Comprehensive Reuters and AFP reports that the province's head of information and culture Hutfa said that at least 1,000 people died in Parktica Province, 1500, 1500, 1500, 1500, and 1500 People are injured. "People are digging one after another." He said to the reporter painfully: "The sky is still raining, and all houses have been destroyed. People are still trapped under the rubble."

According to Reuters, the disaster was severely affected by Gagang and Balma near the border city of Horster. A local doctor said in an interview that all houses in Kayang Village were destroyed in the earthquake. Because the earthquake occurred late at night, most local people were resting in the house and did not perceive the earthquake in time and escaped. Due to the interruption of the local mobile network, the statistics of disaster loss and rescue work have progressed slowly.

Facing a variety of difficulties in disaster relief

Afghanistan is located in the earthquake structure area, located on multiple geological breaks, and the earthquake is more frequent. Reuters recalled that the last earthquake in Afghanistan had a severe injury on March 3, 25, 2002, and a magnitude 7.4 and 6.1 magnitude earthquake occurred in the Kushi District of Xingdu, and about 1,100 people were killed in total. The most miserable in 1998, the remote areas in the northeast of Taghar Province each occurred in February and May of the year, with a magnitude 5.9 and 6.6 strong earthquakes, which killed at least 2,300 and 4,700 people. In January this year, an earthquake occurred in western Afghanistan, causing more than 20 people to die and hundreds of houses.

Agence France -Presse said that before the Taliban took office, the Afghan emergency department was stretched in front of the frequent natural disasters. After the Taliban re -governed, many countries imposed sanctions on the banking industry in Afghanistan and reduced the development assistance worth billions of dollars worth of dollars, which caused the country to be deeply affected by a serious economic crisis. Afghanistan currently has only a few navigation aircraft and helicopters. The ability to respond to the latest earthquake is further limited.

Comprehensive Broadcasting Corporation and Qatar Peninsula TV reported on the 22nd that due to the remote area of ​​the affected areas, the lack of large equipment and medical conditions required for rescue, the wounded was difficult to deal with. Severe humanitarian crisis. In addition, because the mountain road is rugged and difficult, the road is more difficult to pass after the earthquake. The biggest problem is how rescuers reach these locations.

According to reports, the local government and international organizations have mobilized all possible measures including rescue helicopters, transported foods and medicines to the disaster area, and tried their best to rescue and transfer wounded. Some geological experts have pointed out that the risk of aftershocks brought by the earthquake and other geological disaster risks still need to be considered, and the progress of rescue work is facing challenges.

A -Interim Government: Welcome to all international assistance

The interim government in Afghanistan has held a press conference on the matter. Muslim, deputy minister of the disaster management department, introduced the disaster situation and government organization rescue. The highest leader of Taliban, Habatra Ahmhada, issued a statement to express his condolences to the victims. A spokesman for the Interim Government Foreign Ministry said that the country welcomes all international assistance.

The UN Humanitarian Affairs Coordination Office stated that humanitarian agencies are coordinating cooperation with the Afghan Interim Government to send rescue teams to the earthquake -stricken area.

Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin said on the 22nd that after preliminary verification of the Chinese embassy in Afghanistan, there is currently no news of Chinese citizenship. China is willing to provide emergency humanitarian assistance according to the needs of Afghanistan.

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