Rescue workers were digging yesterday for families still trapped in the rubble of their ruined homes, two days after a series of earthquakes that killed more than 2 000 people in rural western Afghanistan.
“People are trying to search and get their family out of debris,” disaster management ministry spokesperson Mullah Janan Sayeq told a news conference in the capital, saying reports from the field described “a very bad situation”.
Volunteers in trucks packed with food, tents and blankets flocked to hard-to-reach areas 30km north-west of Herat city, capital of the province of that name, hit by a magnitude 6.3 quake Saturday and eight powerful aftershocks.
They also brought shovels to help dig through the rubble of flattened villages as hope dwindled that anyone may still be buried alive.
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