{"id":59045,"date":"2023-10-08T18:03:08","date_gmt":"2023-10-08T09:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/oct\/08\/afghanistan-earthquake-has-killed-almost-2000-taliban-say"},"modified":"2023-10-08T23:21:35","modified_gmt":"2023-10-08T14:21:35","slug":"afghanistan-earthquake-has-killed-more-than-1000-taliban-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=59045","title":{"rendered":"Afghanistan earthquake has killed more than 2,000, Taliban say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Magnitude-6.3 earthquake struck near Herat on Saturday, with hundreds of houses reported destroyed<\/p>\n<p>The death toll from a series of earthquakes in western Afghanistan has risen sharply to more than 2,000 people, according to a Taliban spokesperson, as rescuers searched for survivors among the ruins of razed villages.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMore than 2,060 people are dead and over 10,000 are injured,\u201d he told the Guardian. \u201cMany more people are still under the rubble.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/oct\/08\/afghanistan-earthquake-has-killed-almost-2000-taliban-say\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Magnitude-6.3 earthquake struck near Herat on Saturday, with hundreds of houses reported destroyedThe death toll from a series of earthquakes in western Afghanistan has risen sharply to more than 2,000 people, according to a Taliban spokesperson, as re&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1725,"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":[46,263,1709,61,44,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-earthquakes","category-natural-disasters","category-south-and-central-asia","category-taliban","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\/59045","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\/1725"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59045"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59045\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59069,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59045\/revisions\/59069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}