{"id":73767,"date":"2025-09-01T20:37:27","date_gmt":"2025-09-01T11:37:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2025\/sep\/01\/afghanistan-earthquake-live-hundreds-after-shallow-quake-strikes-countrys-east-state-media-reports"},"modified":"2025-09-02T01:55:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T16:55:07","slug":"afghanistan-earthquake-live-more-than-800-dead-after-shallow-quake-strikes-countrys-east-state-media-reports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=73767","title":{"rendered":"\u2018There is death in every home\u2019, families say, after at least 800 killed in Afghanistan earthquake \u2013 as it happened"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Several villages in Kunar province \u2018completely destroyed\u2019, says public health ministry, as rescue operations take place. This live blog is closed<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/sep\/01\/afghanistan-earthquake-near-jalalabad-magnitude-6-quake-pakistan-border\">Magnitude 6 earthquake hits eastern Afghanistan<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/sep\/01\/how-have-you-been-affected-by-the-earthquake-in-afghanistan\">How have you been affected by the earthquake?<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>One resident in Afghanistan\u2019s <strong>Nurgal district<\/strong>, one of the worst-affected areas in Kunar, said almost the entire village had collapsed under the force of the earthquake. <\/p>\n<p> \u201cChildren are under the rubble. The elderly are under the rubble. Young people are under the rubble,\u201d the villager, who did not give his name, told the Associated Press.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe need help here,\u201d he pleaded. \u201cWe need people to come here and join us. Let us pull out the people who are buried. There is no one who can come and remove dead bodies from under the rubble.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2025\/sep\/01\/afghanistan-earthquake-live-hundreds-after-shallow-quake-strikes-countrys-east-state-media-reports\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several villages in Kunar province \u2018completely destroyed\u2019, says public health ministry, as rescue operations take place. This live blog is closedMagnitude 6 earthquake hits eastern AfghanistanHow have you been affected by the earthquake?One resident in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4920,"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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-earthquakes","category-south-and-central-asia"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73767","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\/4920"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=73767"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73767\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73785,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73767\/revisions\/73785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}