(2 Sep 2025)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY: NO ACCESS AFGHANISTAN INTERNATIONAL
ASSOCIATED PRESS – NO ACCESS AFGHANISTAN INTERNATIONAL
Kunar Province, Afghanistan – 1 September 2025
1. Residents carrying injured people
2. SOUNDBITE (Pashto) Shahid Khan, local resident injured in earthquake:
“We were under the soil. The Muslims came and rescued us. My wife, my son, my nephew, and my grandchildren were all buried under the destroyed house. This was God’s test of us."
3. Residents carrying injured people
4. Various of relatives gathered around injured on stretchers
5. SOUNDBITE (Pashto) Gul Khaliq, relative of victims:
“Everyone is busy with their own grief; the situation is very bad. In our area, two-floor, three-floor and four-floor houses have all been destroyed. The deceased whose funeral was held today was my grandson. He died last night."
6. Damaged village
7. People standing in front of their destroyed homes
STORYLINE:
Survivors of a deadly earthquake in Afghanistan were busy caring for the injured and praying for their dead on Monday, even as more victims were being pulled from the rubble.
The magnitude 6.0 quake late Sunday killed some 800 people and injured more than 2,500 in eastern Afghanistan, according to the Taliban government.
It hit towns in the province of Kunar, near the city of Jalalabad in neighboring Nangarhar province, causing extensive damage.
“Everyone is busy with their own grief; the situation is very bad," said Kunar resident Gul Khaliq, whose grandson was killed in the earthquake.
The quake at 11:47 p.m. was centered 27 kilometers (17 miles) east-northeast of Jalalabad, the U.S. Geological Survey said. It was just 8 kilometers (5 miles) deep.
Shallower quakes tend to cause more damage.
Several aftershocks followed.
The Taliban government’s chief spokesman, Zabihullah Mujahid, said at a press conference Monday that the death toll had risen to at least 800 with more than 2,500 injured.
He said most of the casualties were in Kunar.
Buildings in Afghanistan tend to be low-rise constructions, mostly of concrete and brick, with homes in rural and outlying areas made from mud bricks and wood. Many are poorly built.
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