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A powerful earthquake of magnitude 6.1 jolted Afghanistan on June 22, killing more than 1000 people and injuring hundreds. Local and international relief workers rushed to the affected regions but media reports suggest that thousands of people remain with little food, shelter and safe water in the aftermath of the country's deadliest earthquake in decades. 

UNITED NATIONS: A top UN official in Afghanistan has appealed for greater international aid for the country after he visited communities affected by last week’s devastating earthquake.

The UAE has established a mobile clinic in the southeastern province of Khost to treat the people affected in the recent earthquake in Afghanistan, local officials said.  

Villagers see destruction everywhere and help in short supply days after an earthquake devastated a remote region of southeast Afghanistan and killed at least 1,150 people by authorities estimates.

Aftermath of earthquake in Khost province, Afghanistan-

A humanitarian cargo sent from Turkmenistan to Afghanistan in connection with the devastating earthquake that occurred recently in the Afghan provinces of Khost and Paktika arrived in Kabul today.

Uniindia: Geneva, June 27 (UNI) The World Health Organization (WHO) has said surveillance of infectious diseases in the earthquake-hit areas of Afghanistan has been increased following warnings by local authorities that the survivors are at risk of disease.

Afghanistans deadly earthquake this week struck one of the poorest corners of a country that has been hollowed out by increasing poverty.

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The earthquake that hit southeastern Afghanistan last week has killed at least 155 children, the United Nations' humanitarian coordination organization, the OCHA, said in an update on June 26.