Afghanistan earthquakes a 'disaster on top of a disaster' - World Food Programme

Atefeh, 6, an Afghan girl who says she lost her father and brother in the recent earthquake, poses for a photograph at the Red Crescent camp in district of Zinda Jan, in Herat, Afghanistan October 10, 2023. REUTERS/Ali Khara

KARACHI, Pakistan (Reuters) - The World Food Programme on Wednesday called the recent Afghanistan earthquakes a 'disaster on top of a disaster,' urging the international community to provide humanitarian aid to the war-torn nation.

Limited aid makes relief work difficult after earthquakes and aftershocks since Saturday rattled the religiously conservative nation. The tremors killed at least 2,400 people and injured more than 2,000, the Taliban-run government said, making the quakes among the world's deadliest so far this year after tremblors in Turkey and Syria killed an estimated 50,000 people.