Earthquake hits western Afghanistan, kills 26, says South Asian official

A minor earthquake hit western Afghanistan, killing at least 26 people, according to local media reports.

A shallow earthquake with a magnitude of 5.3 struck the conflict-ridden region on Monday, the US Geological Survey said.

According to officials, the victims died when the roofs of their homes collapsed in the Cadiz region in the western Badghis province. It is estimated that more than 1,000 homes were damaged.

“Five women and four children were among the 26 killed in the earthquake,” provincial spokesman Baz Muhammad Sarwari told AFP, adding that four were injured.

Sarwari said that there are also reports of great destruction in the Makar area of ​​the governorate, but the details of the victims are not yet known.

The majority of homes and buildings built in poor Afghanistan are of poor quality. Hence, whenever an earthquake occurs, it leaves behind a chain of destruction and losses.

Cadiz is already suffering from a devastating drought, and has been receiving international aid for 20 years.

In 2015, nearly 280 people died when a powerful 7.5-magnitude earthquake struck its epicenter in the mountain range across southern Asia, with the bulk of the deaths in Pakistan.

In that disaster, 12 Afghan girls were killed in a stampede while trying to flee their shaky school building.

Afghanistan is already in the grip of a humanitarian catastrophe, exacerbated by the Taliban’s takeover of the country in August when Western countries froze international aid and access to assets located abroad.

The United Nations estimates that nearly 23 million Afghans – about 55 percent of the population – face extreme levels of hunger, with nearly 9 million at risk of starvation with the onset of winter.

(with input from agencies)

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