The Afghan Red Crescent will receive humanitarian aid worth $200,000 from the Chinese Red Cross Society to combat the consequences of the devastating earthquake. More than two thousand Afghans lost their lives as a result of this natural disaster. The Chinese Red Cross conveyed this information, the agency reported. xinhua.
On Saturday, the European Mediterranean Seismological Center (EMSC) reported multiple earthquakes of up to magnitude 6.4 in western Afghanistan. According to Western media, the death toll exceeded two thousand and the number of injured exceeded nine thousand.
“The Chinese Red Cross Society has decided to provide US$200,000 in cash to the Afghan Red Crescent Society as emergency humanitarian aid for disaster relief operations,” the agency said.
Earlier, Suhail Shaheen, head of the political office of the Taliban (an organization banned in Russia) in Afghanistan (under UN sanctions for terrorist activities), reported that there were ten rescue teams. work To help earthquake victims in Herat province.
Previously in China evacuated 200 thousand people due to typhoon.