Erfanullah Sharafzoi, a spokesperson for the Afghan Red Crescent, said emergency teams and volunteers were preparing to go to Herat to help victims.
Videos posted on social media showed hundreds of people in the streets outside their homes and offices in the city.
AdvertisementResident Abdul Shakor Samadi said: “Me and my family were inside our home, I felt the quake,” adding that his relatives began shouting and ran outside and are now afraid to return. “All people are out of their homes. Houses, offices and shops are all empty and there are fears of more earthquakes.”
Another resident, Naseema, said the multiple tremors had caused panic in Herat, adding: “People left their houses, we all are on the streets.” Abdul Ghani Baradar, the Taliban-appointed deputy prime minister for economic affairs, has expressed his condolences to the victims in Herat and Badghis. In June last year, Afghanistan’s deadliest earthquake in two decades killed at least 1,000 people and injured about 1,500 more.
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