Afghanistan is seeking emergency medical aid after the earthquake that devastated the country earlier this week left thousands injured.
KABUL – Afghanistan does not have enough medical supplies to treat the injured from an earthquake that killed 1,000 people, a senior official said on Friday, as authorities ended the search for survivors in remote southeastern mountains.
The 6.1 magnitude earthquake struck about 100 miles southeast of Kabul near the Pakistani border, in a region of arid mountains dotted with small settlements that has been often contested over Afghanistan’s decades of war. Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, and the United Arab Emirates all said on Thursday they planned to send aid. Supplies from Pakistan have already crossed the border.