The United Nations Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) says that more than 43,000 people have been directly affected by the recent earthquakes across Afghanistan‘s western province of Herat.
OCHA said that Injil district was the worst-affected district, accounting for 53 per cent of people affected.
Most of the villages there have been completely flattened.
More than 90 per cent of those killed are women and children, according to the UN.
People in the province are sleeping in open spaces outside their homes.
On Monday, the head of the World Health Organisation (WHO) called it a “tent city.
On October 7, a strong 6.3-magnitude earthquake rocked western Afghanistan at a depth of around 10 kilometres, killing some 2,400 people, according to the latest figures by the Taliban-run government.
The UN puts the estimated death toll at 1,384 people.
So far, several aftershocks have hit the affected area.
UN is appealing for 93.6 million U.S. dollars to support the earthquake response.
