Beijing: The Chinese Red Cross Society will provide the Afghan Red Crescent with $200,000 as part of emergency humanitarian aid designed to mitigate the consequences of the deadly earthquakes that hit the west of the country last week, Chinese news agency Xinhua reported on Monday.
The Chinese Red Cross Society announced the decision on Sunday to facilitate rescue and disaster relief efforts, the news agency reported.
Earlier in the day, Suhail Shaheen, the head of the political office of the Taliban movement (under UN sanctions over terrorism), said that 10 rescue teams were working in Afghanistan’s Herat province to help earthquake victims who lacked medicines, basic necessities and tents.
The European-Mediterranean Seismological Center said on Saturday that several earthquakes with a maximum magnitude of 6.4 hit western Afghanistan. The Afghan authorities said on Sunday that the death toll from the earthquakes had exceeded 2,400 people.
