• At least 920 people confirmed dead and another 600 injured.
• Helicopters have been using distant places to transport patients to hospitals.
• A complete village in Gayan was reportedly destroyed, according to local media.

In the eastern Paktika province, where rescuers have been rushing to treat the injured, pictures reveal landslides and destroyed mud-built dwellings.

Helicopters have been using distant places to transport patients to hospitals.

Numerous homes have been damaged, according to Taliban leader Hibatullah Akhundzada, and the death toll is certain to climb.

At least 920 people were confirmed dead and another 600 injured, making it Afghanistan’s deadliest earthquake in 20 years, according to his deputy minister for disaster management Sharafuddin Muslim.

At the time of the attack, many people were at home and fast asleep in their beds. It struck roughly 44km (27 miles) from the southern city of Khost.

“You can hear folks lamenting the loss of their loved ones on every street you walk down. Homes are destroyed, “According to a local journalist in the severely damaged Paktika area,

In Afghanistan, where many rural houses are unstable or poorly constructed, earthquakes can cause major damage.

Another local journalist in the area said that communication has been challenging since the earthquake because cell phone tower damage has made it possible for the dead toll to increase even further.

Due to malfunctioning phones, he claimed, “many individuals are unaware of the health of their families.” “After several hours, I only learned that my brother and his family had passed away. There have been several village destructions.”

Officials from the Taliban urged assistance organisations to hasten their arrival in the nation’s eastern impacted regions.

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Despite efforts by relief organisations to strengthen some buildings over the years, the impoverished nation has struggled to develop its defences against earthquakes and other natural disasters due to decades of conflict.

Even before the Taliban took control of the country, Afghanistan’s emergency services were understaffed and underequipped to handle natural disasters.

Medical professionals were among the victims, a doctor from one of the hardest affected districts in Paktika province said.

“The earthquake has destroyed what little we had because we didn’t have enough people and resources before it,” they claimed. “I have no idea how many of our coworkers are still around.”

Locals revealed horrifying pictures of death and devastation in the wake of the late-night earthquake to the news agency Reuters.

“I yelled with the children. We lost one of our rooms. When we saw everyone’s rooms and our neighbours’ screams, “Fatima said.

Local resident Faisal remarked, “It wrecked the homes of our neighbours.” “There were a lot of people dead and hurt when we got there. We were taken to a hospital by them. I also observed numerous dead bodies.”

According to a local doctor, the majority of the casualties to date have occurred in the Paktika regions of Gayan and Barmal. A complete village in Gayan was reportedly destroyed, according to the local media outlet Etilaat-e Roz.

Seismologists estimate that the earthquake had a depth of about 51 kilometres and had a magnitude of 6.1.

Over 500 kilometres of Afghanistan, Pakistan, and India experienced tremors. Witnesses claimed to have felt the earthquake in Islamabad, Pakistan, as well as Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan.

However, there have not yet been any reports of severe damage or casualties in Pakistan.

Due to its location in a tectonically active area and its proximity to a variety of fault lines, including the Chaman fault, the Hari Rud fault, the Central Badakhshan fault, and the Darvaz fault, Afghanistan is prone to earthquakes.

According to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, more than 7,000 people have died in earthquakes in the nation during the past ten years. Earthquakes cause 560 fatalities annually on average.

More than 20 people were killed and hundreds of homes were devastated most recently by back-to-back earthquakes in the country’s west in January.

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