Gayan Prasanga Peiris
Gayan may refer to: * Gayan District, a district in Paktika Province, Afghanistan * Gayan, Hautes-Pyrénées Gayan is a commune in the Hautes-Pyrénées department in south-western France. See also *Communes of the Hautes-Pyrénées department A commune is an alternative term for an intentional community. Commune or comună or comune or other deriva ...

Gayan District
Gayan District (, ) 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. History Gayan was one of the districts most affected by 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, 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. Construction of new earthquake-resistant houses In August 2022, new " earthquake-resistant houses" began to be con ...
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