Rescuers focus on remote mountainous areas after the Afghanistan earthquake Seismic news

The head of disaster management, ehsanullah ehsan, says they cannot “predict” the number of bodies besieged under the rubble.

Rescuers are trying to reach remote areas in the East Konar region of Afghanistan after a Destroyer 900 people were killed and 3000 were wounded, according to the Taliban official, villages and flat buildings.

The death toll is likely to rise.

Ehsanullah Ehsan, head of disaster management, said early on Tuesday that efforts will be extended to include more mountainous areas in the region.

“We cannot accurately predict the number of bodies that are still besieged under the rubble,” Ihsan said.

“Our efforts are to complete these operations as soon as possible and start distributing aid to affected families,” and pointed out that some of those who were injured have been transferred to hospitals in the capital, Kabul, and the neighboring Nangarhar province.

Immediately before midnight Sunday, shallow Size of 6 earthquake to hit eastern Afghanistan – One of the most amoines in the country.

The mountainous terrain makes rescue work difficult, as volunteers were unable to reach isolated areas along the Pakistani border, where most of the clay brick houses were destroyed.

According to Iskan, access to vehicles on the narrow mountain roads was the main obstacle to relief work.

“Very Challenge”

In the update of the circumstance, the World Health Organization (WHO) reiterated that the destruction of the remote roads and sites of many villages “strongly hinder the delivery of aid.”

The World Health Organization said: “The pre -Earthquake’s health system means that the local capacity is mired, which fully creates the external actors,” adding that more than 12,000 people have been affected.

Huma Nader, the deputy head of the delegation on behalf of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Cross Communities in Afghanistan, told the island that it became “almost impossible” to continue the rescue effort due to the destruction of roads.

Nader said: “The challenges are still ongoing. We have faced, but to direct the disaster management that came yesterday with heavy machines to purify some roads and knees to be able to support them with reaching that humanitarian actors such as the Afghan Red Crescent Society can go and operate search and rescue operations, but unfortunately, it represents a major challenge.”

She added that while they are waiting for a full report from the organization, it is completely likely to increase the number of (deaths) because we do not reach the most remote villages yet.

Afghanistan has witnessed devastating earthquakes in the past because of its position at the meeting point, where Indian and rolling paintings converge.

A more bloody earthquake occurred in October 2023, Which killed more than 2000 people in Hirat Province.