(5 Sep 2025)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY: NO ACCESS AFGHANISTAN INTERNATIONAL
ASSOCIATED PRESS – NO ACCESS AFGHANISTAN INTERNATIONAL
Kunar Province, Afghanistan – 5 September 2025
1. Various of camp for displaced people
2. Various of displaced people
3. SOUNDBITE (Pashto) Zabihullah (only given name), displaced earthquake victim:
“We are facing serious problems. There are no facilities here. We live on the ground. There is no drinking water, nor are there proper toilets. All our patients live on the ground under the blue sky."
4. Pan of displaced people
5. Mid of children walking by tents
6. SOUNDBITE (Pashto) Shamsur Rahman, displaced earthquake victim:
“I was sleeping outside of the room when the earthquake occurred. Suddenly, the roof of my house collapsed, and my six children were under the rubble. I heard them screaming and they were saying ‘please save me,’ but unfortunately, I couldn’t save them."
7. Mid of displaced people by tents
8. Various of ambulances arriving to treat victims
9. Various of Afghan Red Crescent Society staff setting up tents for treatment
10. SOUNDBITE (Pashto) Abdul Latif Sabet, head of Afghan Red Crescent Society:
“Since the earthquake occurred again yesterday, all roads have been blocked. It has become difficult to deliver medicine, food and doctors to the earthquake-affected areas. The people asked government officials to build a camp, and now on the instructions of the Kunar province governor, we are building a camp here under the Afghan Red Crescent Society, and we want to set up 500 tents here for victims."
11. Various of Afghan Red Crescent Society staff setting up tents for treatment
12. Various of boxes of aid
13. Wide of ambulances
STORYLINE:
The Afghan Red Crescent Society set up a camp in Kunar Province on Friday to treat victims of a devastating earthquake that leveled villages and left thousands displaced.
The shallow, 6.0-magnitude quake struck the mountainous and remote eastern part of Afghanistan late Sunday, destroying houses and trapping people under rubble.
Another earthquake that struck late Thursday left roads blocked in the province’s Nurgal District, hampering efforts to deliver medicine and aid to affected areas, according to the head of the Afghan Red Crescent Society, Abdul Latif Sabet.
Most of the casualties have been in Kunar province, where people typically live in wood and mud-brick houses along steep river valleys separated by high mountains.
Many are now living in tents with no access to drinking water or toilet facilities.
Hundreds more bodies have been recovered from houses in destroyed mountain villages, pushing the death toll to over 2,200, a Taliban government spokesman said Thursday.
Some 98% percent of the buildings in the province were damaged or destroyed, according to an assessment issued Thursday by the Islamic Relief charity.
One survivor, Shamsur Rahman, said he had been sleeping when his roof had suddenly collapsed, trapping his six children underneath the rubble.
He was unable to save them.
Aid agencies said they were sorely in need of staff and supplies to tend to the region’s survivors.
Afghanistan was already struggling with drought, a weak economy and the recent return of some 2 million Afghans from neighboring countries.
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