Quake kills hundreds in Afghanistan

阿富汗地震造成数百人死亡

Global News Podcast

2025-09-01

33 分钟
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Rescue workers in Afghanistan are trying to reach villages in remote mountainous areas in the east of the country following a magnitude six earthquake. A Taliban official said more than eight-hundred people had died and more than two-thousand-five-hundred had been injured in the provinces of Kunar and Nangarhar. Helicopters have been deployed to collect the wounded as landslides have cut off roads. The UN says that twenty assessment teams have so far been deployed to areas worst hit by the quake. The emergency comes as Afghanistan is suffering from a severe drought and food crisis. Also: at a summit of world leaders in the Chinese city of Tianjin, the Chinese President, Xi Jinping, said the group would challenge what he called bullying behaviour - in apparent reference to the tariffs that President Trump has imposed on India and other countries, and details of how Queen Camilla fought off an attempted assault when she was a teenager are revealed in a new book about the British monarchy: The Global News Podcast brings you the breaking news you need to hear, as it happens. Listen for the latest headlines and current affairs from around the world. Politics, economics, climate, business, technology, health – we cover it all with expert analysis and insight. Get the news that matters, delivered twice a day on weekdays and daily at weekends, plus special bonus episodes reacting to urgent breaking stories. Follow or subscribe now and never miss a moment. Get in touch: globalpodcast@bbc.co.uk
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  • This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service.

  • I'm Nick Mars and at 14 hours GMT on Monday the 1st of September, these are our main stories.

  • The Taliban in Afghanistan say hundreds of people have been killed in an earthquake in the country's mountainous eastern region.

  • The leaders of China,

  • India and Russia have been presenting a united front at a summit of world leaders in the northern Chinese city of Tianjin.

  • Also in this podcast, as the Israeli army continues its push into Gaza City,

  • what more do we know about the US plan on the so-called next day after the war?

  • And details of how Queen Camilla fought off an attempted assault when she was a teenager are revealed in a new book about the British monarchy.

  • Camilla said, I did what my mother taught me.

  • I took my shoe off and I whacked him in the nuts with a heel.

  • The Taliban in Afghanistan say hundreds of people have died in a magnitude six earthquake in the east of the country.

  • As we record this podcast,

  • the authorities say more than 800 are dead and that more than 2,500 people have been injured in the provinces of Nangarhar and Kunar.

  • A Taliban spokesman, Zaibullah Mujahid,

  • said the epicentre was in a remote mountainous area which is making relief operations difficult.

  • He said the casualty figures may increase as some villages were only accessible by helicopter and some people and bodies were still being recovered from the rubble.

  • Our correspondent in Afghanistan is Yama Bariz.

  • I spoke to him as he made his way towards the area worst affected by the quake.

  • The center of the earthquake was in eastern Afghanistan,

  • Kunar province, which has been... affected very badly.