Kazakhstan has sent 18 tons of humanitarian aid to Afghanistan after a deadly earthquake near the northern Afghan city of Mazar-i-Sharif earlier this month.
The aid from Kazakhstan includes medicine, medical instruments, bedding, tents and other essentials, and the Ministry of Health has also sent a team of medical workers to help affected communities in Afghanistan, the Kazakh government said on Thursday. It released photographs that show military personnel loading boxes of aid onto a military transport plane.
A 6.3 magnitude earthquake hit near Mazar-i-Sharif around 1.a.m. local time on November 3, killing more than two dozen people, injuring more than 1,000 and damaging the city’s centuries-old Blue Mosque. Mazar-i-Sharif is near the border with Uzbekistan, which exports electricity to Afghanistan. The earthquake temporarily knocked out that power supply.
Countries in Central Asia and elsewhere also responded with aid deliveries after a far more devastating earthquake in eastern Afghanistan on August 31. That disaster killed at least 2,200 people.
