{"id":73790,"date":"2025-09-02T09:29:32","date_gmt":"2025-09-02T00:29:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/sep\/02\/afghanistan-earthquake-taliban-appeals-for-international-aid-as-rescue-teams-search-for-survivors"},"modified":"2025-09-03T00:55:19","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T15:55:19","slug":"afghanistan-earthquake-taliban-appeals-for-international-aid-as-rescue-teams-search-for-survivors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=73790","title":{"rendered":"Afghanistan death toll passes 1,400 as second earthquake strikes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Taliban appeal for aid, with casualties expected to increase as rescue teams struggle to reach isolated areas  <\/p>\n<p>The Taliban have called for international aid as Afghanistan reels from an earthquake that killed more than 1,400 people and left thousands more injured.<\/p>\n<p>Rescuers searched into the night for survivors after the 6.0-magnitude quake <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/sep\/01\/afghanistan-earthquake-near-jalalabad-magnitude-6-quake-pakistan-border\">struck on Sunday<\/a> destroying entire villages across the country\u2019s eastern Kunar province, which borders Pakistan.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/sep\/02\/afghanistan-earthquake-taliban-appeals-for-international-aid-as-rescue-teams-search-for-survivors\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taliban appeal for aid, with casualties expected to increase as rescue teams struggle to reach isolated areas  The Taliban have called for international aid as Afghanistan reels from an earthquake that killed more than 1,400 people and left thousands m&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":203,"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":[46,263,61,44,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-earthquakes","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\/73790","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\/203"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=73790"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73790\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73822,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73790\/revisions\/73822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}