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一 |     ISLAMABAD -- More than 90% of the people killed by a 6.3-magnitude earthquake in western Afghanistan last weekend were women and children, U.N. officials reported Thursday.Taliban officials said Saturday's earthquake killed more than 2,000 people of all ages and genders across Herat province. The epicenter was in Zenda Jan district, where 1,294 people died, 1,688 were injured and every home was destroyed, according to U.N. figures. Women and children were more likely to have been at home when the quake struck in the morning, said Siddig Ibrahim, the chief of the UNICEF field office in Herat, said. “When the first earthquake hit, people thought it was an explosion, and they ran into their homes,” he said.Hundreds of people, mostly women, remain missing in Zenda Jan.The Afghanistan representative for the United Nations Population Fund, Jaime Nadal, said there would have been no “gender dimension” to the death toll if the quake had happened at night.“At that time of the day, men were out in the field,” Nadal told The Associated Press. “Many men migrate to Iran for work. The women were at home doing the chores and looking after the children. They found themselves trapped under the rubble. There was clearly a gender dimension.”The initial quake, numerous aftershocks and a second 6.3-magnitude quake on Wednesday flattened entire villages, destroying hundreds of mud-brick homes that could not withstand such force. Schools, health clinics and other village facilities also collapsed.The Norwegian Refugee Council described the devastation as enormous. “Early reports from our teams are that many of those who lost their lives were small children who were crushed or suffocated after buildings collapsed on them,” the council said. The maternity hospital in Herat province has cracks that make the structure unsafe. The U.N. Population Fund has provided tents so pregnant women have somewhere to stay and receive care, Nadal said. Many people inside and outside the provincial capital are still sleeping outside, even as temperatures drop.The disproportionate impact of the quake on women has left children without mothers, their primary caregivers, raising questions about who will raise them or how to reunite them with fathers who might be out of the province or Afghanistan.Aid officials say orphanages are non-existent or rare, meaning children who have lost one or both parents were likely to be taken in by surviving relatives or community members.Earthquakes are common in Afghanistan, where there are a number of fault lines and frequent movement among three nearby tectonic plates.Women may be at risk of not getting information on earthquake preparedness because of Taliban edicts curtailing their mobility and rights, and restrictions imposed on female humanitarian workers, a U.N. report has warned.Authorities have barred girls from school beyond sixth grade and stopped women from working at nongovernmental groups, although there are exceptions for some sectors like health care. The Taliban also say that women cannot travel long distances without male chaperones.Aid agencies say their female Afghan staff members are “for now” working freely in Herat and reaching women and girls affected by the earthquake.UNICEF has launched a $20 million appeal to help the estimate 13,000 children and families devastated by the earthquake.。          　　世界最大直径水下盾构隧道、国内首条穿黄单洞双层盾构隧道——济南黄岗路黄河隧道8月25日上午正式开通，济南黄岗路黄河隧道通车后，将有效缓解现有过黄通道的交通压力，让市民从“绕行过黄河”变为“直通过黄河”，将有效促进济南拥河发展，加快新旧动能转换起步区建设。      　　济南城市建设集团济南黄岗路黄河隧道项目负责人张提勇向新黄河记者介绍，项目采用单洞双层布置，上层通行南向北方向车辆，下层通行北向南方向车辆，双向6车道，单洞实现双向通行。     　　这种设计理念与传统的双洞布置比较，一是节约城市地下空间，二是节约投资15%左右，在国内穿黄隧道中尚属首例。同时，创新设计方面把隧道净高从传统的3.5米提高到4.2米，可以满足通行公交、消防、管理及救援车辆等通行要求，兼顾日常通行与应急处置功能，极大地提高通行能力。      　　“项目建成后，将实现主城区与新旧动能转换起步区互联互通，推动区域融合性发展，推进起步区建设全面提速。”张提勇说。     　　近年来，济南城市建设集团负责投资建设的“四桥四隧”工程项目建设全面推进，其中，济乐高速南延线、济南济泺路黄河隧道、济南凤凰路黄河大桥、济南黄河大桥、济南齐鲁大道黄河大桥、济南济泺路北延黄河隧道、济南黄岗路黄河隧道相继建成通车，目前已完成“四桥三隧”建设任务，济南航天大道黄河隧道(Ⅰ期)实现双线贯通，项目建设正在有序推进。     　　随着剩余工程的完工，济南跨黄通道布局将进一步完善，持续拓展济南城市发展空间，助力起步区吸引更多产业项目、优质资源集聚。

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