A new earthquake of magnitude 5.2 hit the areas of the East of Afghanistan on Tuesday Where the authorities have already registered more than 1,400 dead and more than 3,100 injured, after the earthquake last Sunday.
As reported by the United States Geological Service (USGS), the new earthquake took place 34 kilometers northeast of the city of Jalalabad, capital of the province of Nangarhar, the second most affected by the first earthquake that mainly devastated areas of the province of Kunar.
The earthquake had a depth of 10 kilometers.
Meanwhile, in the areas most affected by the previous earthquake, some of them almost completely isolated by land, rescue operations have continued.
“In places where aircraft could not land, dozens of command forces were transported by air and deployed to get the wounded from the debris and transfer them to safer places, ”said the Taliban spokesman Hamdullah Fitrat.
He added that a camp has been established so that the coordination committees organize the help and emergency supplies.
In some areas such as the Dewagal Valley, where Efe accessed, many injured continue trapped under the debris.
“People walk through the mountain. It takes almost four hours on foot from here to reach the areas affected by the earthquakewhere the victims are still trapped under collapsed houses, ”a local resident, told Efe Sultan Mohammad.
“There is no road access and people have to walk to reach the village of Shaheedan, where no help or rescue assistance has yet arrived,” he added, and explained that some of the people carry shovels, peaks, dry bread and water to help the most affected people.
Far from the most devastated areas, the first displaced local medical teams remain.
“We are a Kabul voluntary medical team, but we can’t advance anymore. We have established a mobile clinic here, so when they bring the wounded we treat them here“, Dr. Reza Mohammad explained to Efe.
In a camp in the gorge of walking Lachal, Abdul Majeed, 55, says he lost four family members in the first earthquake: his wife, two daughters and a son.
“Anteanoche, the earthquake hit us. I don’t remember what happened to me, I just regained consciousness later. My wife, my two small daughters and my son died. One of my daughters was injured and now he is in the Jalalab hospital,” Majeed told Efe, to add: “We didn’t have anything left.” EFE
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