Afghanistan quake kills 1,000 people, deadliest in decades

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KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — A powerful earthquake struck a rugged, mountainous region of eastern Afghanistan early Wednesday, flattening stone and mud-brick homes and killing at least 1,000 people in the country’s deadliest quake in two decades, the state-run news agency reported.

An estimated 1,500 others were reported injured, and officials said the death toll could rise.

The disaster inflicted by the 6.1-magnitude quake posed a major test for Afghanistan’s Taliban government, which retook power nearly 10 months ago as the U.S. and its NATO allies withdrew from the country and has been largely shunned by the rest of the world since.

In a rare move, the Taliban’s supreme leader, Haibatullah Akhundzadah, who almost never appears in public, pleaded with the international community and humanitarian organizations “to help the Afghan people affected by this great tragedy and to spare no effort to help the affected people.”

https://apnews.com/article/afghanistan-earthquakes-bacc4c96b7a07b5d7d397bee9eb9d3c8

[malaise]

1. Shook up the entire region -

India Pakistan et al - real sad - what's frightening is it was 5.9

[Hortensis]

2. Encouraging that they're asking for aid. UN's already

there on the ground. Wonder if we'll be giving some aid directly as U.S. or if it'll all go through the UN and other nations.