By Babatunde Solanke with agency report

At least no fewer than 14 people were killed, 78 injured while dozens are still buried under collapsed buildings after a magnitude 6.3 earthquake hit western Afghanistan on Saturday.

 The Public Health Director of Herat Province, Mohammad Taleb Shahid, confirmed the sad development during an interview with told AFP.

 “These are the numbers that have been brought to the central hospital so far, but this is not the final figure,” “We have information that people are buried under rubble.”

Emergency teams and volunteers are preparing to go Herat and help victims, Erfanullah Sharafzoi, spokesperson for the Afghan Red Crescent said.

The multiple tremors caused panic in Herat, said resident Naseema.

“People left their houses, we all are on the streets,” she wrote in a text to Reuters, adding that the city was feeling follow-on tremors.

Videos posted on social media showed hundreds of people in the streets outside their homes and offices in the city.

Resident Abdul Shakor Samadi said: “Me and my family were inside our home, I felt the quake,” adding that his relatives began shouting and ran outside and are now afraid to return.

“All people are out of their homes. Houses, offices and shops are all empty and there are fears of more earthquakes.”

Another resident, Naseema, said the multiple tremors had caused panic in Herat, adding: “People left their houses, we all are on the streets.”

Abdul Ghani Baradar, the Taliban-appointed deputy prime minister for economic affairs, has expressed his condolences to the victims in Herat and Badghis.

In June last year, Afghanistan’s deadliest earthquake in two decades killed at least 1,000 people and injured about 1,500 more.