Afghanistan deploys commandos as UN warns quake aid running out

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KABUL: Afghanistan has entered commando units into an earthquake -hit zone to save survivors under the rubble, as the UN has warned that food assistance for victims without international support can be eliminated soon.

Dozens of commando forces were being airplaps in places where helicopters could not land, to help carry the wounded to a safe land, in which relief groups said there was a run against time to save people trapped under the rubble.

The United Nations World Food Program (WFP) warned Wednesday that time was passing for those who survived two devastating earthquakes in the remote eastern region of the poorest country.

In Afghanistan, WFP chief John Isleef told Reuters that the agency has only enough funds and stocks for the next four weeks.

“It is not enough to meet the basic, essential needs of the earthquake -hit population in four weeks, and only make the victims go on a path to rebuild their lives,” said Ayuf.

According to UN financial data, WFP financing for Afghanistan this year is less than $ 300 million, which was $ 1.7 billion in 2022, the Taliban ruled the country.

The country with 42 million people affected by war, poverty and shrinking aid has the resources for rescue and relief work. After the disaster, it has received limited global support.

In recent years, the deadliest earthquake of Afghanistan, the first earthquake of dimension -6, when it affected the Kanner and Nangarhar provinces around midnight on Sunday, at midnight.

On Tuesday evening, the second earthquake of 5.5 earthquakes disrupted panic and rescue efforts when it sent stones to the mountains and cut roads in villages in remote areas.

The Taliban administration said the toll destroyed 1,457 deaths, 3,394 injured and more than 6,700 homes were destroyed. The UN has said that the tool can increase, people are still trapped under the rubble.

Authorities have set up a camp to integrate supply and emergency aid, while two centers are overseeing the transfer of the injured, the burial of the dead and the savings of the survivors, said Ehsanullah Ehsan, the head of disaster management in Kanar.

“We really need aerial support, helicopters,” said Elf, sadly WFP had a helicopter … until a few months ago when funding cuts eliminated it. “

Afghanistan has been badly affected by US President Donald Trump’s foreign aid, while donor frustration and aid on Taliban -banned policies about women have worsened its isolation.

Wiped out all the houses

In some villages in the province, the entire houses were wiped out. The backers carried the bodies on the woven stretches in search of the family through the rubble and digs the graves with the chin.

In Lolum Village, the most difficult victim, the court, a 63 -year -old woman, who goes by a name, said that he and his family have been waiting for help for three days since destroying the earthquake house.

He said, “No one even listens to our voices,” he said, standing on a bed of traditional wood and ropes and said that he was injured on his chest. “Now we are just sitting in the hope of God. We have no house, nothing to eat.”

On the nearby Mountain Road, the truck that is carrying flour sacks or the men who can be seen going to the villages can be seen worse.

Rohila Matin, a humanitarian tech platform that has teams on the ground, said that for the survivors, conditions are worsening for an hour, especially with women and children.

For the harmony of the UN Human Affairs (OCHA), the heavy rainy days remained unstable, dried masonry, stone and wooden -built -in -law or poorly constructed homes.

The agency, which is pulling global destruction efforts simultaneously, called for emergency shelter, food aid and sanitation facilities with drinking water, critical medical equipment and other items.

International group doctors without doctors, a border (MSF) official, who distributed trauma kits to two hospitals in the affected areas, also demanded more humanitarian assistance.

Afghanistan is suffering from a deadly earthquake, especially in the Hindu Kush mountain range, where Indian and Eurasian tectonic plates are found.