UN: Crippling Winter Puts Nearly 100,000 Children At Risk in Quake-Hit Afghanistan

FILE- An Afghan girl cries in front of her house that was destroyed by the earthquake in western Afghanistan, on Oct. 11, 2023. Almost 100,000 children need support three months after earthquakes devastated the Herat region, the U.N. children’s agency said Jan. 15, 2024.

The United Nations has called for increased humanitarian aid to help tens of thousands of children in western Afghanistan who are suffering in life-threatening winter conditions in the aftermath of a string of devastating earthquakes last October.