{"id":45669,"date":"2022-06-22T14:22:12","date_gmt":"2022-06-22T05:22:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jun\/22\/afghanistan-earthquake-at-least-130-dead-after-magnitude-quake-strikes"},"modified":"2022-06-23T07:22:54","modified_gmt":"2022-06-22T22:22:54","slug":"afghanistan-earthquake-at-least-130-dead-after-6-1-magnitude-quake-strikes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=45669","title":{"rendered":"Afghanistan earthquake: at least 1,000 people killed after 5.9 magnitude tremor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Toll expected to rise after deadliest quake in two decades strikes during night near Khost, 95 miles south of Kabul<\/p>\n<p>A powerful earthquake in a remote area of Afghanistan\u2019s Paktika province has killed at least 1,000 people and injured at least 1,500, with the toll expected to rise in the impoverished country.<\/p>\n<p>According to Taliban officials, hundreds more were injured in what appears to have been the deadliest quake in two decades, striking during the night with heavy rain hampering rescue efforts.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jun\/22\/afghanistan-earthquake-at-least-130-dead-after-magnitude-quake-strikes\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toll expected to rise after deadliest quake in two decades strikes during night near Khost, 95 miles south of KabulA powerful earthquake in a remote area of Afghanistan\u2019s Paktika province has killed at least 1,000 people and injured at least 1,500, wit&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1020,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46,263,1709,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-earthquakes","category-natural-disasters","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1020"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45669"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45669\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45716,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45669\/revisions\/45716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}