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Earthquake in Afghanistan leaves at least three dead, 44 injured

The region of the Afghan Hindu Kush is a center of great seismic activity. | Fountain: AFP

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At least three people have been killed and 44 wounded in Afghanistan, Taliban interim government officials said on Wednesday, a day after earthquake magnitude 6.5 shook the northeast of the country.

“So far in 34 provinces of the country, medical centers have reported 3 dead and 44 injured” because of the fort. earthquakeThis was announced by the press secretary of the Ministry of Health Sharafat Zaman Amar.

According to the source, among the three dead in the provinces of Laghman (east) and Takhar (north) there is a minor, and injuries were received in different parts of the country.

He earthquake It was recorded yesterday at 10:17 pm (local time), according to the USGS, and its epicenter was about 40 kilometers from the city of Jurm in the northeastern province of Badakhshan and close to the huge Hindu Kush mountain range. United States (USGS).

Zone indian kush Afghanistan is a center of great seismic activity and a regular point of origin of telluric movements in the region.

Background

At the end of last June, A. earthquake A similar magnitude of 5.9 in the eastern provinces of Paktika and Khost, bordering Pakistan, left over a thousand dead and about 1,500 injured, and destroyed hundreds of homes.

The country also experienced one of the largest disasters caused by earthquakes in 1998 in the north of the country, when two earthquakes of magnitude 5.9 and 6 occurred in February, killing about 4,000 people. A few months later, at the end of May, earthquake magnitude 7 again shook the area and claimed the lives of about 5,000 people. (EFE)


Source: RPP

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