The United Nations World Food Program (WFP) has made an urgent plea for $19 million to provide emergency food assistance to 100,000 individuals affected by recent earthquakes in Herat.
Quoting recent figures by the UN, WFP said that the October 7 earthquakes in Herat claimed the lives of at least 1,400 people, with more than 1,800 individuals sustaining injuries, and that most of the casualties were women and children.