US Allocates $12 Million For Victims of Earthquake in Afghanistan

The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) said that the organisation has allocated $12 million for immediate humanitarian assistance to help the earthquake victims in western Afghanistan.

The US aid to Afghanistan has been announced at the same time as the appeal made by relief organisations to increase urgent financial resources for the treatment of hundreds of victims of the two earthquakes in the past five days in western Afghanistan.

Reuters reported that the aid will be distributed through external agencies such as the International Organisation for Migration, which includes temporary shelter, blankets, clothes, food, and other items.

The Taliban has provided varying statistics regarding the earthquake's casualties. The group’s Ministry for Disaster Management announced that at least 2,400 people died in the earthquake, but the Ministry of Public Health announced that the number of victims was more than 1,000 people.