The United States Geological Survey has said that a magnitude 6.3 earthquake struck northern Afghanistan this Monday.
The spokesperson for the Ministry of Public Health in Samangan,Samim Joyanda, told newsmen that “a total of 150 people injured and seven [dead] have been reported and transferred to health centres.
Joyanda says that the toll is based on hospital reports collected this Monday.
Meanwhile the United Nations and aid agencies have warned that hunger is rising in the Afghan population, saying that the country is suffering from a humanitarian crisis compounded by drought, economic restrictions on the banking sector, and the pushback of millions of Afghan citizens from neighbouring Iran and Pakistan.