{"id":59029,"date":"2023-10-07T21:20:24","date_gmt":"2023-10-07T12:20:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/oct\/07\/western-afghanistan-hit-by-series-of-powerful-earthquakes"},"modified":"2023-10-08T05:30:23","modified_gmt":"2023-10-07T20:30:23","slug":"at-least-14-dead-after-6-3-magnitude-earthquake-hits-west-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=59029","title":{"rendered":"Dozens of people killed after powerful earthquakes hit Afghanistan, UN says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UN says estimate of 320 fatalities is being verified, although local authorities put the death toll at 100, with 500 injured<\/p>\n<p>Hundreds of people are feared dead after a series of powerful earthquakes hit western Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>The United Nations said more than 320 had lost their lives before later saying the figure was still being verified. A local Taliban official told the Guardian the death toll \u201cis much higher than that\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/oct\/07\/western-afghanistan-hit-by-series-of-powerful-earthquakes\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UN says estimate of 320 fatalities is being verified, although local authorities put the death toll at 100, with 500 injuredHundreds of people are feared dead after a series of powerful earthquakes hit western Afghanistan.The United Nations said more t&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"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":[46,263,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-earthquakes","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\/59029","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\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59029"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59029\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59036,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59029\/revisions\/59036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}