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Hope dwindles for survivors after quake
The Mercury
|September 04, 2025
HOPE faded yesterday of finding survivors in the rubble of homes devastated by the weekend’s powerful earthquake in eastern Afghanistan, as emergency services struggled to reach remote villages.
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A magnitude-6.0 earthquake hit the mountainous region bordering Pakistan at the weekend, leaving residents huddled in the open air for fear of powerful aftershocks and desperately trying to pull people from under flattened buildings.
The earthquake killed more than 1 400 people and injured over 3 300, Taliban authorities said, making it one of the deadliest in decades to hit the impoverished country.
The vast majority of the casualties were in Kunar province, with a dozen dead and hundreds hurt in nearby Nangarhar and Laghman provinces.
In Kunar’s Nurgal district, victims remained trapped under the rubble and were difficult to rescue, local official Ijaz Ulhaq Yaad said yesterday.
“There are some villages which have still not received aid) he said.
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