LONDON — A 6.0 magnitude earthquake struck japanese Afghanistan on Sunday, destroying a number of villages and killing a whole bunch, based on an area official and the United Nations mission.
Greater than 600 individuals have been killed and greater than 1,300 have been injured within the Kunar province, Mufti Abdul Matin Qani, spokesperson for the Ministry of Inside, advised Afghan media early on Monday. One other dozen individuals have been killed within the Nangarhar province, he mentioned.
The United Nations mission in Afghanistan mentioned in an announcement its staffers have been “deeply saddened” by the “devastating” quake, which “claimed a whole bunch of lives, injuring many extra.”
The highly effective earthquake struck about 17 miles east of Jalalabad, close to the border with Pakistan simply earlier than midnight, based on preliminary knowledge from the U.S. Geological Survey.
Afghan injured youngsters obtain remedy at a hospital after an earthquake in Afghanistan’s Jalalabad on September 1, 2025.
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The Afghan well being minister mentioned that a number of villages within the Nurgal district of Kunar — together with Sholt, Arit, Mamagal, Wadir and others — had been all however destroyed. Others suffered important injury, the minister mentioned.
A number of the injured had been evacuated and rescue efforts have been ongoing, the ministry mentioned.
“Sadly, tonight’s earthquake has prompted lack of life and property injury in a few of our japanese provinces,” Zabihullah Mujahid, a authorities spokesperson, mentioned in a post on social media.
Folks carry an earthquake sufferer on a stretcher to an ambulance at an airport in Jalalabad, Afghanistan, Sept. 1, 2025.
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Mujahid mentioned help groups from close by provinces had been dispatched to the world.
The Ministry of Protection said a 10-member crew flew some 40 flights out of the world, carrying 420 individuals to hospitals, together with the Daoud Khan Navy Hospital. The Nationwide Catastrophe Administration Authority said a convoy carrying response groups was en path to the affected areas in Kunar.
The U.N. Workplace for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs in Afghanistan started coordinating with different worldwide businesses after the quake, saying its “companions are on the bottom initiating instant reduction efforts.”
On this photograph launched by the Nangarhar Media Middle, stretchers and ambulances are ready to obtain victims of an earthquake that killed a whole bunch and destroyed quite a few villages in japanese Afghanistan, at Nangarhar Airport in Nangarhar, Afghanistan, Monday, Sept. 1, 2025.
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The U.N. would “spare no effort to help these in want within the affected areas,” Secretary-Basic Antonio Guterres mentioned.
“I stand in full solidarity with the individuals of Afghanistan after the devastating earthquake that hit the nation earlier at present,” he said on social media. “I prolong my deepest condolences to the households of the victims and need a speedy restoration to these injured.”
ABC Information’ Will Gretsky and Jessica Gorman contributed to this report.
