CGTN published this video item, entitled “Exclusive Stringer Dispatch: Afghan villagers call for help following deadly quake” – below is their description.
In the early morning of June 22, a magnitude-6.1 #earthquake struck eastern #Afghanistan’s Paktika Province, killing over 1,000 people. CGTN Global Stringer visits a village in the quake zone. Locals say the village has suffered heavy casualties and needs help with a shortage of tents, medicine and other relief supplies.
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This story is an English language news item from CGTN. CGTN is a Chinese state-funded broadcaster.
Afghanistan, officially the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, is a landlocked country at the crossroads of Central and South Asia. Afghanistan is bordered by Pakistan to the east and south; Iran to the west; Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, and Tajikistan to the north; and China to the northeast.
Occupying 652,000 square kilometers (252,000 sq mi), it is a mountainous country with plains in the north and southwest. Kabul is the capital and largest city. The population is around 32 million, composed mostly of ethnic Pashtuns, Tajiks, Hazaras, and Uzbeks.