Death toll of children in Afghanistan quake rises to 155
APTOPIX Afghanistan Earthquake Afghan boy sits in a courtyard of her destroyed home after an earthquake in Gayan district in Paktika province, Afghanistan, Sunday, June 26, 2022. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Nooroozi) (Ebrahim Noroozi)GAYAN, Afghanistan — (AP) — The death toll of children in last week's devastating earthquake in southeastern Afghanistan has risen to at least 155, the United Nations said as the scope of the deadliest quake to hit the impoverished country in two decades comes into focus. Most of the children died in Paktika’s hard-hit Gayan district, which remains a scene of life in ruins, days after the quake. The quake has also left an estimated 65 children orphaned or unaccompanied, the U.N. humanitarian office added. It also has set up clinics to offer mental health and psychological support to children in Gayan traumatized by the disaster.
wftv.comDeath toll of children in Afghanistan quake rises to 155
The United Nations says that the death toll of children in last week’s devastating earthquake in southeastern Afghanistan has risen to 155 as the scope of the deadliest quake to hit the impoverished country in two decades comes into focus
washingtonpost.comDeath toll of children in Afghanistan quake rises to 155
The United Nations says that the death toll of children in last week’s devastating earthquake in southeastern Afghanistan has risen to 155 as the scope of the deadliest quake to hit the impoverished country in two decades comes into focus.
Destruction everywhere, help scarce after Afghanistan quake
Afghanistan Earthquake Afghan girl carries a donated matrace after an earthquake in Gayan village, in Paktika province, Afghanistan, Friday, June 24, 2022. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Nooroozi (Ebrahim Noroozi)GAYAN, Afghanistan — (AP) — When the ground heaved from last week’s earthquake in Afghanistan, Nahim Gul’s stone-and-mud house collapsed on top of him. Now, days after a 6 magnitude quake that devastated a remote region of southeast Afghanistan and killed at least 1,150 people and injured hundreds more, Gul sees destruction everywhere and help in short supply. His niece and nephew were also killed in the quake, crushed by the walls of their house. The Afghanistan Chamber of Commerce and Investment said on Sunday it had raised over $1.5 million for Pakitka and Khost provinces.
wftv.comDeadly quake a new blow to Afghans enervated by poverty
(National Disaster Management Authority via AP) (Uncredited)GAYAN, Afghanistan — (AP) — Afghanistan’s deadly earthquake this week struck one of the poorest corners of a country that has been hollowed out by increasing poverty. Every single of the nearly two dozen homes in one village, Miradin, were reduced to rubble by Wednesday’s quake. Either toll would make the quake Afghanistan’s deadliest in two decades. Rutted roads through the mountains, already slow to drive on, were made worse by quake damage and rain. Aid groups said that while they are rushing to help the quake victims, keeping Afghanistan just above catastrophe through humanitarian programs is not sustainable.
wftv.comPakistan plane carrying aid joins Afghan quake relief effort
Mansoor Ahmad Khan, Pakistan’s ambassador in the Afghan capital of Kabul, said relief goods dispatched by Pakistan on Saturday were handed over to Taliban officials. Earlier, Pakistan’s government and a Pakistani charity had sent 13 trucks carrying food, tents, life saving medicines and other essential items to Afghanistan. Officials said Pakistan has opened its border in the northwest to transport critically injured Afghans to hospitals in Pakistan. Also on Saturday, an Afghan military chopper transported food and other necessities to people in Gayan district in Paktika province. The aid organization said it would distribute relief items to around 1,000 families in the district, including food, tents and clothes.
wftv.comTaliban struggle to respond to earthquake amid international isolation
(Lorenzo Tugnoli for The Washington Post)Taliban militants distribute bread in Paktika province. (Lorenzo Tugnoli for The Washington Post)Villagers remove rubble of a destroyed house in Paktika province. (Lorenzo Tugnoli for The Washington Post)Aslad Khan, 40, recovers in a hospital in Urgun after 15 members of his family were killed in the earthquake. (Lorenzo Tugnoli for The Washington Post)Paktika has been one of the country’s most neglected provinces for decades. (Lorenzo Tugnoli for The Washington Post)Haq Nawaz Khan in Peshawar, Pakistan, contributed to this report.
washingtonpost.comAfghanistan earthquake victims face struggles getting aid
Afghanistan Earthquake Afghans stand by the bodies of relatives killed in an earthquake in Gayan village, in Paktika province, Afghanistan, Thursday, June 23, 2022. Humanitarian aid organization Direct Relief says its shipment of 1 million doses of donated prenatal vitamins is still being held by customs weeks after it arrived in the country. Direct Relief says it has offered the World Health Organization’s Afghanistan office emergency medicines and supplies needed for trauma care. The World Food Programme reported it has sent at least 18 trucks carrying emergency supplies to the area near the quake's epicenter. For those looking to donate to help those affected by the Afghanistan earthquake, McIlreavy, of the Center for Disaster Philanthropy, said focusing on groups currently working in Afghanistan would be important.
wftv.comAftershock in Afghanistan as quake toll rises to 1,150 dead
Afghanistan Earthquake A man stands among destruction after an earthquake in Gayan village, in Paktika province, Afghanistan, Thursday, June 23, 2022. Among the dead from Wednesday's magnitude 6 quake are 121 children, but that figure is expected to climb, said Mohamed Ayoya, UNICEF's representative in Afghanistan. Thousands of stone and mud-brick homes crumbled in the quake, which struck at night, often trapping whole families in the rubble. The Taliban director of the Bakhtar News Agency said Friday the death toll from the first quake had risen to 1,150 people. Either grim toll would make the quake Afghanistan’s deadliest in two decades.
wftv.comAftershock in Afghanistan as quake toll rises to 1,150 dead
Afghanistan Earthquake A man stands among destruction after an earthquake in Gayan village, in Paktika province, Afghanistan, Thursday, June 23, 2022. Pakistan’s Meteorological Department reported a 4.2 magnitude quake in southeastern Afghanistan that state-run Bakhtar News Agency reported took five more lives in hard-hit Gayan District and injured 11 people. Still, residents appeared to be largely on their own to deal with the aftermath as their new Taliban-led government and the international aid community struggle to bring in help. The Taliban director of the Bakhtar agency said Friday the death toll had risen to 1,150 people from previous reports of 1,000 killed. Many international aid agencies withdrew from Afghanistan when the Taliban seized power last August.
wftv.comA second earthquake hits devastated eastern Afghanistan
Afghanistan Earthquake A man stands among destruction after an earthquake in Gayan village, in Paktika province, Afghanistan, Thursday, June 23, 2022. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Nooroozi) (Ebrahim Noroozi)GAYAN, Afghanistan — (AP) — State media say at least five people were killed when another, smaller earthquake struck an area of eastern Afghanistan that experienced a devastating quake earlier this week. The state-run Bakhtar News Agency said the quake shook Paktika’s Gayan District on Friday morning. Still, residents appeared to be largely on their own to deal with the aftermath as their new Taliban-led government and the international aid community struggle to bring in help. Many international aid agencies withdrew from Afghanistan when the Taliban seized power last August.
wftv.comDeath toll from Afghanistan's quake rises to 1,150 people
The Taliban director of the state-run Bakhtar News Agency said Friday the death toll had risen to 1,150 people from previous reports of 1,000 killed. The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs has put the death toll at 770 people. It’s not clear how death toll counts are being reached, given the difficulties of accessing and communicating with the impacted villages. Either grim toll would make the quake Afghanistan’s deadliest in two decades. Trucks of food and other necessities arrived from Pakistan, and planes full of humanitarian aid landed from Iran and Qatar.
wftv.comIndia flies tons of essentials to quake-rocked Afghanistan
India sent family tents, blankets and other relief supplies for a team to distribute in eastern Afghan villages where a deadly earthquake collapsed thousands of timber and stone homes to rubble. Pictures of the relief effort were accompanied by a tweet from India’s External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar: “India, a true first responder.” The supplies total 27 tons delivered over two flights to Afghanistan's capital Kabul, where the United Nations Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs and the Afghan Red Crescent Society will coordinate its distribution, a ministry statement said Friday.
news.yahoo.comIndia sends team to help with deadly Afghanistan earthquake
Afghanistan Earthquake A man stands among destruction after an earthquake in Gayan village, in Paktika province, Afghanistan, Thursday, June 23, 2022. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Nooroozi) (Ebrahim Noroozi)NEW DELHI — (AP) — India said it sent a technical team to Kabul to coordinate the delivery of humanitarian assistance after a powerful earthquake in eastern Afghanistan that state media reported killed 1,000 people. A ministry statement on Thursday didn’t give details about the technical team or any relief material sent to Afghanistan. India was left with no diplomatic presence in Kabul after it evacuated its staff ahead of the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan last year. Indian officials held talks with the Taliban in Afghanistan for the first time early this month to discuss the distribution of humanitarian assistance.
wftv.comAfghan aid auditor accuses State, USAID of withholding info
The independent watchdog for U.S. assistance to Afghanistan is accusing the State Department and U.S. Agency for International Development of illegally withholding information from it about the American withdrawal from the country last year. The State Department did not deny it had cut off cooperation with the watchdog. The department said the report was unfairly negative and did not represent the administration's view of the events surrounding the collapse of the Afghan government and the Taliban takeover. In his letters, Sopko was blunt, seeking immediate action from Congress, Blinken and Power to restore the cooperation his office has had with their agencies in the past. “Our view is that the report does not reflect the consensus view of the State Department or the U.S. government," Price told reporters.
wftv.comAfghanistan quake kills 1,000 people, deadliest in decades
APTOPIX Afghanistan Earthquake In this photo released by a state-run news agency Bakhtar, Afghans look at destruction caused by an earthquake in the province of Paktika, eastern Afghanistan, Wednesday, June 22, 2022. (Bakhtar News Agency via AP) (Uncredited)KABUL, Afghanistan — (AP) — A powerful earthquake struck a rural, mountainous region of eastern Afghanistan early Wednesday, killing 1,000 people and injuring 1,500 more in one of the deadliest temblors in decades, the state-run news agency reported. Experts put the depth at just 10 kilometers (6 miles) — another factor that could lead to severe destruction. Rescuers rushed to the area by helicopter Wednesday, but the response is likely to be complicated since many international aid agencies left Afghanistan after the Taliban takeover. The death toll given by the Bakhtar News Agency was equal to that of a quake in 2002 in northern Afghanistan.
wftv.comAfghanistan earthquake: 920 killed, hundreds hurt in 6.1 magnitude quake, reports say
Afghanistan earthquake: 920 killed, hundreds hurt in 6.1 magnitude quake, reports say In this image taken from video from Bakhtar State News Agency, Taliban fighters secure a government helicopter to evacuate injured people in Gayan district, Paktika province, Afghanistan, Wednesday, June 22, 2022. (Bakhtar State News Agency via AP)KABUL, Afghanistan — At least 920 people are dead and 600 are hurt after a magnitude 6.1 earthquake struck eastern Afghanistan early Wednesday, an official said. >> Read more trending newsAccording to The Associated Press and Reuters, Sharafuddin Muslim, an Afghan emergency official, provided the figures in a news conference just hours after the strong quake struck about 28 miles southwest of Khost near the Pakistan border. Meanwhile, Ramiz Alakbarov, the United Nations’ resident coordinator in Afghanistan, tweeted that the agency is “assessing the needs and responding” in the quake’s aftermath. @OCHAAfg and @unafghanistan are assessing the needs and responding in the aftermath of the earthquake last night which has taken hundreds of lives.
wftv.comAfghanistan earthquake kills at least 155 people
KABUL, Afghanistan — (AP) — Afghanistan's state-run news agency is reporting that at least 155 people have been killed in an earthquake in the country’s eastern Paktika province. Information remained scarce otherwise on the magnitude 6 earthquake that struck. The Bakhtar news agency separately reported rescuers were arriving by helicopter. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission.
wftv.comSenate OKs enhanced benefits for vets exposed to burn pits
Congress Veterans Burn Pits FILE - An Afghan National Army pickup truck passes parked U.S. armored military vehicles, as smoke rises from a fire in a trash burn pit at Forward Operating Base Caferetta Nawzad, Helmand province south of Kabul, Afghanistan, April 28, 2011. The Senate is expected to approve on Thursday a large expansion of health care and disability benefits for veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan in response to concerns about their exposure to toxic burn pits. (AP Photo/Simon Klingert, File) (Simon Klingert)WASHINGTON — (AP) — The Senate on Thursday approved a sweeping expansion of health care and disability benefits for Iraq and Afghanistan veterans in response to concerns about their exposure to toxic burn pits. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., described the bill as “the greatest advance in veterans health care in decades." Sen. Jon Tester, the chairman of the Senate Veterans' Affairs Committee, said the bill was “about righting a wrong that has been ignored too damn long."
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