Emergency teams in Herat Province, Afghanistan, are racing against time to rescue survivors after a 6.3-magnitude earthquake rocked the area.

Footage filmed by local journalist Nazir Ahmad Hashimi in Siah Ab in the Zinda Jan district shows locals inspecting the damage.

According to Hashimi, around 1,600 people live in the village and around 85 per cent are missing or injured.

More than 1,000 are feared dead in the province.

This videos location is the siah aab village in Zinda Jan district in Herat province . In the video, you can see destroyed places and houses, people who went to help, those who lost their family members, those who lost their lives .

The situation in this area is such that not even a single part of this area has been left healthy. There were about 250 families in this area, with a total of 1,600 people living here. It is said that 85 percent of these people spent their lives there. They have lost or been injured

Footage filmed by local journalist Nazir Ahmad Hashimi – he tells It was really difficult for me to cover such events because everyone was crying out of sadness

Around 3000 people were killed in earthquakes, the deadliest tremors to rock the quake-prone mountainous country in years.