The family’s solely survivor was a boy aged round two years outdated, who was injured within the tremor.
Printed On 4 Apr 2026
An earthquake in Afghanistan has killed eight members of the identical household when their house collapsed within the Gosfand Dara space of Kabul province.
Well being Ministry spokesman Sharafat Zaman stated on Saturday {that a} little one aged round two years outdated was the one survivor. Afghanistan’s catastrophe administration company stated the boy was injured.
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The 5.8-magnitude quake struck at 8:42pm native time (16:12 GMT) on Friday at a depth of 186km (115 miles). The US Geological Survey (USGS) stated the epicentre was within the northeastern province of Badakhshan.
The capital Kabul is about 290km (180 miles) southwest of the epicentre.
There have been no speedy studies of accidents or injury in areas nearer to the epicentre. The province is distant so it may possibly typically take a number of hours earlier than native authorities can relay info again to Kabul.
Sturdy tremors had been felt in a number of elements of Afghanistan, together with Kabul and the Indian capital New Delhi, witnesses informed the Reuters information company.
Pakistan additionally felt the quake, together with within the capital Islamabad and Peshawar, Chitral, Swat and Shangla. There have been no speedy studies of accidents or injury.
Earlier quakes
Afghanistan is incessantly jolted by earthquakes alongside the Hindu Kush mountain vary – close to the junction of the Eurasian and Indian tectonic plates. On common, 560 persons are killed by quakes there yearly.
The deadliest tremor within the nation’s latest historical past struck final August. The shallow magnitude 6 earthquake in jap Afghanistan worn out mountain villages, killing at least 2,200 people
Most casualties had been in Kunar province, the place Afghans usually reside in wooden and mud-brick homes alongside steep valleys.
Impoverished Afghanistan typically faces issue in responding to pure disasters, particularly in distant areas.
Many houses in rural and outlying areas are poorly constructed with bricks, wooden and dust.
