Women and children make up two-thirds of the victims of the recent earthquakes in Afghanistan who were hospitalised with severe injuries, the head of the World Health Organisation's emergency response…
Afghan women and children were disproportionately killed by the earthquake across Herat province this last weekend because they were more likely to be at home when buildings fell. Many are now concerned about who will raise the children left without mothers.
The chief of the UNICEF field office in the province said Thursday that women and children were more likely to have been at home when the morning quake struck.
More than 90% of the people killed by a 6.3 magnitude earthquake in western Afghanistan last weekend were women and children, U.N. officials reported Thursday.
Women and children were more likely to have been home when the quake struck last Saturday morning, and ran indoors because they thought it was an explosion.
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