{"id":73939,"date":"2025-09-05T01:13:22","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T16:13:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/sep\/04\/afghan-earthquake-death-toll-jumps-says-taliban"},"modified":"2025-09-05T19:43:39","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T10:43:39","slug":"afghan-earthquake-death-toll-jumps-to-more-than-2200-says-taliban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=73939","title":{"rendered":"Afghan earthquake death toll jumps to more than 2,200, say Taliban"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Aid agencies plead for funds as rough terrain hinders relief effort and 98% of buildings in one province are damaged<\/p>\n<p>The death toll from a major earthquake in Afghanistan this week has jumped to more than 2,200, just as another magnitude 6.2 earthquake hit the southeastern region of the country on Thursday night.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, Taliban spokesperson Hamdullah Fitrat <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/sep\/04\/afghan-earthquake-death-toll-jumps-says-taliban\">confirmed that the death toll from Sunday\u2019s earthquake had risen to 2,205<\/a> \u2013 up from previous estimates of 1,400 \u2013 making it one of the deadliest natural disasters to hit the country in decades.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/sep\/04\/afghan-earthquake-death-toll-jumps-says-taliban\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aid agencies plead for funds as rough terrain hinders relief effort and 98% of buildings in one province are damagedThe death toll from a major earthquake in Afghanistan this week has jumped to more than 2,200, just as another magnitude 6.2 earthquake &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4943,"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-73939","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\/73939","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\/4943"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=73939"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73939\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73958,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73939\/revisions\/73958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}