This photo taken on Oct. 11, 2023 shows the ruins of dwellings in a village hit by earthquakes in the Zindajan District, west Afghanistan's Herat Province. (Photo by Saifurahman Safi/Xinhua)
KABUL, Oct. 13 (Xinhua) -- Chinese mining firm MCC-JCL Aynak Minerals Company Ltd. (MJAM) donated 2.27 million Afghani (30,000 U.S. dollars) to the quake-affected families in west Afghanistan's Herat province on Thursday.
In a ceremony attended by Shahabuddin Delawar, the acting minister for mines and petroleum in the Afghan caretaker government, Zhang Jikui, the company's representative, handed the donation over to the Afghan side.
Welcoming the donation, Delawar said it reflects the friendship between the people of China and Afghanistan.
A man walks on ruins of dwellings in a village hit by earthquakes in the Zindajan District, west Afghanistan's Herat Province, Oct. 11, 2023. (Photo by Saifurahman Safi/Xinhua)
Earlier, Afghanistan-based Chinese citizens donated more than 17,000 dollars to the quake-affected people in Herat.
Two earthquakes each with a magnitude of 6.2 on the Richter scale, followed by several aftershocks, rocked west Afghanistan with an epicenter in the Zanda Jan district of Herat province on Saturday, leaving at least 2,053 dead and thousands more injured.■
