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Pakistan, Afghanistan Continue Rescue Work As Quake Casualties Mount
“All the players are with the suffering families and once I go back I will definitely take part in the relief work as its our duty to help our brothers and sisters”, said Younis, who hails from the north-west Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province, an area badly hit by the quake.
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Badakhshan’s Governor Shah Waliullah Adeeb said that in all, 13 districts in the province had been affected, with more than 1,500 houses either destroyed or partially destroyed. According to Afghan and Pakistani officials, 258 people died in Pakistan and 78 in Afghanistan in the magnitude-7.5 quake.
Rescuers in Pakistan and Afghanistan are working to provide food and shelter and to reach more stranded victims of the 7.5 magnitude quake that hit the region, while there are fears the death toll will continue to rise. The US Geological Survey initially measured the magnitude at 7.7, then revised it down to 7.5. “The injured coming in this late in the evening are mostly from mountainous areas”, said local reporter Qaiser Malik. The tremors also led to landslides, building collapses and stampedes, adding to the mounting death toll and injuries. In Pakistan, at least 231 people were killed and 1,632 injured.
The militant group, which ruled Afghanistan prior to the USA invasion in 2001 and has been fighting Western-backed government forces in the country ever since, also announced that its fighters have been ordered to help residents of areas affected by the disaster.
“The death toll is expected to keep rising”, said Nangyalay Yousufzai, the head of the Nangarhar branch of the Afghan Red Crescent Society, speaking from the area affected by the quake.
BBC News reported on Tuesday that that rescue teams are still trying to get to remote mountainous areas in the region and assess its impact, dealing with blocked roads and cut off communication.
Pakistani doctors treat patients at a hospital after an natural disaster hit, in Peshawar, Pakistan, Monday, October 26, 2015.
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“When the relatives of the dead students came to collect their bodies, they were so distressed that they could not even talk to authorities to record their names”, Hafizullah Safai, head of Takhar’s health department, told AFP. With harsh winter weather setting in across the rugged Hindu Kush mountains where the natural disaster struck, the plight of thousands of people left homeless by the quake was becoming increasingly serious. Over the last 15 years, almost 120,000 people have reportedly died due to earthquakes in the region.