Six hundred (600) injuries were also reported by the agency.[1][24] In many instances, bodies of the dead were laid on the streets overnight.[3] A Taliban official later urged aid agencies to send aid to the area to prevent further catastrophe.[27] Several apartment buildings in the affected provinces were destroyed.[24] The director-general of Bakhtar News Agency tweeted that over 90 homes were destroyed in Paktika.[28] Landslides also occurred, burying or destroying houses in Khost province.[29]