UN Aid Efforts Under Way in Quake-Hit Northern Afghanistan

NEW YORK–(ENEWSPF)–20 April 2010 – The United Nations humanitarian wing is coordinating emergency aid and assessing the damage in northern Afghanistan following a 5.3-magnitude earthquake that reportedly killed at least seven people and injured dozens of others.

The quake hit the mountainous Samangan province, northwest of the capital, Kabul, on Monday.

Aid workers are on the scene trying to assess the extent of the casualties and the destruction in the districts of Dara-i-Sufi Bala,…