Gayan District ( Pashto : ګيان ولسوالۍ , Dari : ولسوالی گیان ) is a district of Paktika Province , Afghanistan . The estimated population in 2019 was 46,977 people. The district is within the heartland of the Zadran tribe of Pashtuns .
4-539: Gayan may refer to: Gayan District , a district in Paktika Province, Afghanistan Gayan, Hautes-Pyrénées , at commune in the Hautes-Pyrénées department, France Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Gayan . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change
8-409: The link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gayan&oldid=1098696953 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Gayan District Gayan was one of the districts most affected by
12-476: The magnitude 6.0 earthquake on 22 June 2022. Approximately 1,800 homes, or 70 percent of the district's homes, were destroyed, and 238 people were killed, with 393 others injured. Many houses constructed primarily of mud and wood were razed to the ground. Heavy rain and the earthquake contributed to landslides that destroyed entire hamlets . The local clinic in Gayan, which had the capacity of only five patients,
16-667: Was also heavily damaged. Of the 500 or so patients admitted to the building due to the earthquake, about 200 of them died. Three days later, an aftershock killed five persons and wounded 11 more in the district. In August 2022, new " earthquake-resistant houses " began to be constructed in the district for victims of the earthquake. The project involves the establishment of 2,000 homes in both Gayan and Barmal districts of Paktika Province, including 300 houses in Spera District of neighboring Khost Province . This Paktika Province , Afghanistan location article
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