Afghan residents sit at a damaged house after an earthquake in a village in Herat province on Saturday.Two strong earthquakes have shaken parts of western Afghanistan — with up to 2,000 feared dead and many injured. It's one of the deadliest earthquakes to strike the country in two decades.
Earlier, Mosa Ashari, the disaster management chief of the province of Herat had said:"So far more than 1,000 injured women, children and elderly citizens have been included in our records, and about 120 people have lost their lives". Other images showed the dead strewn about, covered out of respect with blankets. They included children."All people are out of their homes," Samadi said."Houses, offices and shops are all empty and there are fears of more earthquakes. My family and I were inside our home, I felt the quake." His family began shouting and ran outside, he told the news service.