{"id":65600,"date":"2025-09-02T05:07:43","date_gmt":"2025-09-02T05:07:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deshmediabd.com\/?p=65600"},"modified":"2025-09-02T05:07:43","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T05:07:43","slug":"afghanistan-earthquake-death-toll-climbs-to-812","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/?p=65600","title":{"rendered":"Afghanistan earthquake: Death toll climbs to 812"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>International \u00a0ONLINE DESK<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The death toll from the powerful earthquake in eastern Afghanistan has climbed to 812, with more than 2,817 others injured, said Zabihullah Mujahid, spokesperson for the Afghan interim government, during a press conference on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Security, medical, transportation, food and support teams have intensified their efforts to deliver comprehensive and immediate aid to those affected by the disaster, said Abdul Mateen Qani, spokesman of the country&#8217;s Ministry of Interior Affairs.<\/p>\n<p>Rescue teams from the Ministries of Defence, Interior, and Public Health arrived to airlift the injured to Nangarhar Regional Hospital, as reported by local media outlet TOLOnews.<\/p>\n<p>A 6.0-magnitude earthquake struck the eastern part of Afghanistan at 11:47 pm local time on Aug. 31, with its epicentre 27 km at a depth of eight km, according to the US Geological Survey.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; International \u00a0ONLINE DESK &nbsp; The death toll from the powerful earthquake in eastern Afghanistan has climbed to 812, with more than 2,817 others injured, said Zabihullah Mujahid, spokesperson for the Afghan interim government, during a press conference on Monday. Security, medical, transportation, food and support teams have intensified their efforts to deliver comprehensive and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":65601,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-4","category-14"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=65600"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65600\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65602,"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65600\/revisions\/65602"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/65601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}