India airlifts 21 tonnes of earthquake aid to Kabul, says EAM Jaishankar

New Delhi [India], September 2 (ANI): Indian earthquake assistance has reached Kabul by air, External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar stated connected Tuesday.

He informed successful a station connected X, 'Indian earthquake assistance reaches Kabul by air. 21 tonnes of alleviation materials including blankets, tents, hygiene kits, h2o retention tanks, generators, room utensils, portable h2o purifiers, sleeping bags, indispensable medicines, wheelchairs, manus sanitizers, h2o purification tablets, ORS solutions and aesculapian consumables were airlifted today.'

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Jaishankar added, 'India volition proceed to show the crushed concern and nonstop much humanitarian assistance implicit the coming days,' highlighting India's committedness to supporting the alleviation operations successful the aftermath of the disaster.

The decease toll from the almighty earthquake that struck eastbound Afghanistan connected Sunday nighttime has risen to 1,411, officials said, according to Al Jazeera. Rescue efforts are ongoing arsenic teams hunt for survivors pursuing the magnitude 6.0 quake, which has near implicit 3,000 radical injured, with the bulk of casualties reported successful Kunar province. Aid workers are facing large challenges successful reaching remote, mountainous areas that person been chopped disconnected from roads and mobile networks, making alleviation operations difficult.

In effect to the disaster, India has extended urgent humanitarian assistance to enactment operations successful the affected region.

In a station connected X connected Monday, the Ministry of External Affairs stated, 'India extends humanitarian assistance to Afghanistan successful the aftermath of the earthquake.' The station featured images of trucks loaded with sacks of atom and different nutrient supplies, symbolising India's committedness to basal by Afghanistan during this captious time.

The earthquake struck aboriginal Monday greeting with a magnitude of 6.3 connected the Richter scale, and tremors were felt crossed the region, including parts of Pakistan, according to the National Centre for Seismology (NCS). A bid of aftershocks, ranging successful magnitude from 4 to 5, followed the archetypal quake, complicating rescue operations further.

According to the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA), the earthquake's epicentre was successful the Kama territory of Nangarhar Province, adjacent the Pakistan border. Preliminary reports bespeak that astatine slightest 800 radical person been killed crossed 4 provinces--Kunar, Laghman, Nangarhar, and Nuristan--while astir 12,000 radical person been straight affected. (ANI)