DUSHANBE, December 11, 2013, Asia-Plus – The Ministry of Education and Science (MoES) has reportedly provided humanitarian aid to the earthquake-affected teachers in Vahdat Township.

Mahmoudjon Shoyev, a spokesman for a MoES, says the assistance included 17 tons of food products (vegetables, flour, rice, sugar, vegetable oil, tea).

Meanwhile, the Vahdat education department head Safarali Kamolov told Asia-Plus today that a November 10 earthquake destroyed nine homes of teachers and partially damaged 49 homes of teachers.  “Besides, two secondary school buildings and two primary school buildings were destroyed by the earthquake,” Kamolov said.

According to him, construction of new houses for the earthquake-affected people is under way in Vahdat.

We will recall that the November 10 earthquake destroyed 118 homes and partially damaged 259 homes in the villages adjacent to the Vahdat Township.  Twelve persons have sustained various injuries in the earthquake.

The epicenter of the earthquake, which had a magnitude of 5.0 on the Medvedev–Sponheuer–Karnik scale (MSK-64 scale), was near the village of Andigon in Vahdat, some 26 kilometers southeast of Dushanbe.  In Dushanbe, the quake reportedly measured 4.0 on the MSK-64 scale.