MORE THAN 800 DEAD AFTER EARTHQUAKE – Rescuers are searching for survivors after 6.0-magnitude quake hits Jalalabad, Afghanistan
More than 800 people were killed and over 2,800 injured in one of Afghanistan’s worst earthquakes, authorities said on Monday (September 1), as helicopters ferried the wounded to hospital after they were plucked from rubble being combed for survivors.
Footage filmed at what was said to be Nangarhar Airport showed a helicopter carrying casualties landing on the runway and soldiers with stretchers and gurneys rushing to help.
The disaster will further stretch the resources of the South Asian nation already grappling with humanitarian crises, from a sharp drop in aid to a huge pushback of its citizens from neighbouring countries.
The quake of magnitude 6 killed at least 622 people in the eastern provinces of Kunar and Nangarhar, the Taliban-run Afghan interior ministry said, with more than 1,500 injured and numerous houses destroyed.
