{"id":45756,"date":"2022-06-24T21:54:05","date_gmt":"2022-06-24T12:54:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2022\/jun\/24\/too-much-suffering-survivors-quake-deadly-toll-afghanistan"},"modified":"2022-06-24T21:54:05","modified_gmt":"2022-06-24T12:54:05","slug":"too-much-suffering-survivors-talk-of-quakes-deadly-toll-in-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=45756","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Too much suffering\u2019: survivors talk of quake\u2019s deadly toll in Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>5.9-magnitude earthquake leaves children buried under rubble and villages destroyed in already impoverished country<\/p>\n<p>Sitting on a hill overlooking the remote Gayan district, Abdullah Abed pointed towards several freshly dug graves. \u201cThey screamed for help,\u201d he said of his son Farhadullah, 10, and daughter Basrina, 18. \u201cWe tried to save them but by the time we pulled them out of the rubble, their voices had gone quiet.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Today they lie buried beside 10 other family members lost in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jun\/22\/afghanistan-earthquake-at-least-130-dead-after-magnitude-quake-strikes\">5.9-magnitude earthquake<\/a> that struck eastern Afghanistan in the early hours of Wednesday. An estimated 250 people have died in the hard-hit district, many of them now buried next to Abed\u2019s children, among the more than 1,000 people feared dead and 1,500 injured across Afghanistan\u2019s eastern Paktika and Khost provinces. It was Afghanistan\u2019s deadliest quake in two decades.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2022\/jun\/24\/too-much-suffering-survivors-quake-deadly-toll-afghanistan\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>5.9-magnitude earthquake leaves children buried under rubble and villages destroyed in already impoverished countrySitting on a hill overlooking the remote Gayan district, Abdullah Abed pointed towards several freshly dug graves. \u201cThey screamed for hel&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3140,"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":[46,263,59,1709,61,44,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-earthquakes","category-global-development","category-natural-disasters","category-south-and-central-asia","category-taliban","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45756","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\/3140"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45756"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45756\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45769,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45756\/revisions\/45769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}