More than 90% of the people killed by the earthquake in western Afghanistan last weekend were women and children, U.N. officials reported Thursday.
ISLAMABAD — More than 90% of the people killed by a 6.3-magnitude earthquake in western Afghanistan last weekend were women and children, U.N. officials reported Thursday. Taliban officials said Saturday’s earthquake killed more than 2,000 people of all ages and genders across Herat province. The epicenter was in Zenda Jan district, where 1,294 people died, 1,688 were injured and every home was destroyed, according to U.N. figures.
field office in Herat. “When the first earthquake hit, people thought it was an explosion, and they ran into their homes,” he said. Hundreds of people, mostly women, remain missing in Zenda Jan. The Afghanistan representative for the United Nations Population Fund, Jaime Nadal, said there would have been no “gender dimension” to the death toll if the quake had happened at night. “At that time of the day, men were out in the field,” Nadal told The Associated Press.
has launched a $20 million appeal to help the estimated 13,000 children and families devastated by the earthquake.
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