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Almost 100,000 Afghan children are in dire need of support, 3 months after earthquakes, UNICEF says
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FILE- An Afghan girl cries in front of her house that was destroyed by the earthquake in Zenda Jan district in Herat province, western Afghanistan, on Oct. 11, 2023. Almost 100,000 children direly need support three months after earthquakes devastated western Afghanistan, the U.N. children’s agency said Monday, Jan. 15, 2024. - photo by AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi, File
ISLAMABAD (AP) — Almost 100,000 children in Afghanistan are in dire need of support, three months after earthquakes devastated the country's west, the U.N. children’s agency said Monday. A 6.3-magnitude earthquake shook Herat province on Oct. 7 and a second strong quake struck the same province days later, on Oct. 11, killing more than 1,000 people. The majority of those dead in the quakes in Zinda Jan and Injil districts were women and children, and 21,000 homes were destroyed, UNICEF said in a statement.