UNHCR constructs 1000 houses for Paktika quake victims

KABUL (Pajhwok): The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) on Thursday announced constructing 1,000 houses for more than 8,000 earthquake victims in Barmal district of southeastern Paktika province.

On its twitter page, UNHCR said the newly-built houses would be handed over to the earthquake survivors before snow isolates the remote area.

In June 2022, a 5.9-magnitude earthquake struck the southeastern region of Afghanistan devastating Paktika and Khost provinces.

According to official statistics from the Taliban, more than a thousand people had died in the earthquake and thousands of houses destroyed in eastern provinces.

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