BY ALJAZEER
Pakistan and Qatar join other aid agencies in efforts to help people desperate for food, shelter and drinking water.
Cargo planes from Pakistan and Qatar carrying relief material for Afghan earthquake survivors have landed at the Khost airport, officials said on Saturday, as rescuers struggle to deliver aid to remote regions in the wake of Wednesdayâs devastating earthquake.
Thousands have been left homeless or injured by the magnitude 5.9 earthquake in Paktika and Khost provinces, which state media said killed 1,150 people. An aftershock on Friday took five more lives.
The United Nations childrenâs agency representative in Afghanistan said 121 children were among those killed and that figure was expected to climb.
Authorities have now ended the search for survivors from the earthquake that also wounded nearly 2,000 people in what is being billed as the deadliest disaster in nearly two decades.
