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2023-10-09 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
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Fatalities in Afghanistan earthquakes cross 2,000
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 [GEO.TV] As many as 2,053 people have been killed as a result of violent mostly peaceful earthquakes that struck Afghanistan late Saturday while 9,240 people have been injured, a government spokesperson confirmed to Rooters on Sunday.
The corpse count from the earthquakes, which was previously reported to be 120, is expected to rise as rescue operations are still underway in the affected areas.
"Unfortunately, the casualties are practically very high," deputy government front man Bilal Karimi said early Sunday, as the extent of the damage became clear.
Additionally, 1,328 houses were flattened after eight powerful aftershocks from the magnitude 6.3 earthquake shook the region 30 kilometres northwest of Herat
...a venerable old Persian-speaking city in western Afghanistan, populated mostly by Tadjiks, which is why it's not as blood-soaked as areas controlled by Pashtuns...
and terrified city people to flee into the streets.
According to Mosa Ashari, Herat disaster management head, late Saturday there had been "about 120" fatalities reported and "more than 1,000 injured women, children, and old citizens".
A front man for the National Disaster Authority said they expect the corpse count "to rise very high".
As night fell in Sarboland village of Zinda Jan district, dozens of homes were razed to the ground near the epicentre of the quakes, which shook the area for more than five hours, AFP reported.
Men shovelled through piles of crumbled masonry as women and kiddies waited in the open, with gutted homes displaying personal belongings flapping in the harsh wind.
A government official confirmed that 1,329 homes were destroyed across the affected areas, Rooters reported.
The World Health Organization (WHO) reported more than 600 houses destroyed or partially damaged across at least 12 villages in Herat province, affecting 4,200, according to AFP.
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