Providing assistance to landslide victims in Afghanistan in several stages, including setting up tents, foodstuffs and winter supplies
Providing assistance to landslide victims in Afghanistan in several stages, including setting up tents, foodstuffs and winter supplies
Under the directives of His Highness Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan, President of the State, may God preserve him, and His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces, and the follow-up of His Highness Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Presidential Affairs and President of the Khalifa bin Zayed Foundation Al Nahyan Humanitarian Foundation .. The Foundation sent urgent relief aid to the victims of the earthquake in Afghanistan, which occurred in the mountainous Hindu Kush region.An official source at the Khalifa Foundation for Humanitarian Works said that the country's embassy in Kabul has coordinated with its Humanitarian and Development Aid Attaché to purchase relief materials such as food, tents and blankets from the Afghan local market and send them quickly to earthquake victims.The source said that the aid includes thousands of tons of relief materials that covered the needs of most of the victims of the earthquake, which had a magnitude of 7.7 on the Richter scale and hit northeastern Afghanistan at a depth of 196 kilometers and 82 kilometers southeast of Faydabad in the mountainous Hindu Kush region.Afghan President Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai announced that the number of victims as a result of the natural disaster in his country rose to 115 dead and at least 538 injured, as 12 Afghan students were killed in a stampede while trying to escape from school in the city of "Takhar" after the earthquake hit.