Residents of northern Afghanistan began a clean-up operation on Tuesday after a powerful 6.3 magnitude earthquake left at least 20 dead and almost 1,000 injured.<\/p>\n
The quake struck near the northern Afghan city of Mazar-i-Sharif early on Monday, killing at least 20 people and damaging the city’s historic Blue Mosque, authorities said.<\/p>\n
Some 945 people have been injured, according to the latest figures from United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n
Hundreds of houses were either completely or partially destroyed, according to the Afghanistan National Disaster Management Authority, a figure that aid groups said was concerning just ahead of the Afghan winter, where temperatures drop below freezing.<\/p>\n
On Tuesday, residents in Tangi Tashqurgan, an area close to the quake epicenter, were digging out rubble and reinforcing affected buildings.<\/p>\n
Mohammad Yasin, a local shopkeeper, said dozens of structures had been damaged or destroyed in the quake.<\/p>\n
“If you go inside the shops, you feel afraid they might collapse any moment, maybe now or in 10 minutes,” he said.<\/p>\n
The disaster is the latest challenge for Afghanistan’s Taliban administration, already grappling with crises including an earthquake in August that killed thousands in the east of the country, a sharp drop in foreign aid and mass deportations of Afghan refugees by neighboring countries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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