UNICEF on Sunday (September 14), through a message from the organization’s representative in Afghanistan, warned about the extensive child casualties following the recent earthquakes in the east of the country and called for urgent action to support the affected people.

Police in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan have announced that a 21-year-old Afghan refugee woman was gang raped in the Haripur district of the province, and five men have been arrested in connection with the incident.

Taliban local officials in Faryab province say that six people have died and six others have been injured in a traffic incident in Maimana city.

The Afghanistan Media Support Organization (AMSO) has expressed deep concern in a statement over the Taliban’s new restrictions against media and journalists in the past week.