At least seven people have died as a result of a 6.3 magnitude earthquake in northern Afghanistan. This was reported by the Reuters news agency.
According to the local health department, 150 people were injured.
Earlier, the representative of the governor of Balkh province, Haji Zaid, informed about the four dead.
The U.S. Geological Survey reported that a magnitude 6.3 earthquake occurred in the Hindu Kush Mountains in Afghanistan. According to her, the epicenter was located 37 km northwest of the city of Mazar-I-Sharif, where about 523 thousand people live. The source was located at a depth of 10 km, reports tass.ru.
From November 17 to 23, a delegation of Uzbek entrepreneurs, headed by the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Uzbekistan, is on a working visit to the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan.
On November 17, Tashkent hosted a meeting between Energy Minister Jurabek Mirzamakhmudov and a delegation led by Abdul Bori Umar, CEO of the Afghan energy company DABS.
The National Leader of the Turkmen people, Chairman of the People's Council of Turkmenistan Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov, launched the next stage of the Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India gas pipeline.
