(2 Sep 2025)
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Mazar Dara, Kunar province, Afghanistan – 2 September 2025
1. Various of rescue workers and villagers removing rubble, looking for missing children
2. Mid of rubble
3. Various of rescue workers and villagers searching rubble
4. Girl sitting on debris of damaged house
5. Tilt-down of damaged houses
6. Man searching rubble
7. SOUNDBITE (Pashto) Muhammad Younus, villager who lost daughter and son in earthquake:
"It was such an earthquake that none of us were conscious. No one knew about the next house, everyone was in their own trouble. It was a non-stop earthquake that started from 12:00 at midnight until 7:00 in the morning (referring to aftershocks), and there were such tremors that no one could move from their place. No one could go to another house and find out (what had happened)."
8. Various of village and damaged houses
9. Rescue workers and villagers approaching village affected by earthquake
10. SOUNDBITE (Pashto) Nameer Ullah, volunteer:
"People are coming to help and take part in rescue work. The wounded are being moved to Nangarhar and Kunar hospitals, and the martyred are being buried here in the village. People are removing the rubble as there are still people under the rubble."
11. Villagers arriving with food items and bread
12. Various of medical camp doctors treating wounded
13. Mid of people by medical camp
14. Ambulance near camp
15. Various of Taliban military helicopters in area
STORYLINE:
Rescuers and villagers continued to search through the rubble of ruined houses on Tuesday after a major earthquake in eastern Afghanistan killed over 1,400 people and injured more than 3,000.
Sunday night’s powerful 6.0 magnitude earthquake struck several provinces, causing extensive damage.
It flattened villages and trapped people under the rubble of homes constructed mostly of mud bricks and wood that were unable to withstand the shock.
"There was such tremor that no one could move from their place. No one could go to another house and find out (what had happened)," said Muhammad Younus, a villager who lost a daughter and a son in the quake.
Rough terrain was hampering rescue and relief efforts, forcing Taliban authorities to air drop dozens of commandos to evacuate the injured from places where helicopters cannot land.
"People are removing rubble as there are still people under the rubble," said Nameer Ullah, a volunteer.
The Taliban said the death toll passed 1,400 on Tuesday, with more than 3,000 people injured, as the United Nations warned of an exponential rise in casualties.
The figures provided by Taliban government spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid were just for the province of Kunar.
It is the third major earthquake since the Taliban seized power in 2021, and the latest crisis to beset Afghanistan, which is reeling from deep cuts to aid funding, a weak economy, and millions of people forcibly returned from Iran and Pakistan.
The Taliban government, which is only recognized by Russia, has appealed for assistance from the international community and the humanitarian sector.
However, help for Afghanistan is in short supply due to competing global crises and reduced aid budgets in donor countries.
The U.K. has pledged £1 million ($1.3 million) to be split between humanitarian agencies rather than going to the Taliban government, which it does not recognize.
The European Union is sending 130 tons of emergency supplies and providing 1 million euros ($1.16 million). Other countries, including the United Arab Emirates, India and China have pledged disaster relief support.
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