Hundreds of people killed in Afghan earthquake

数百人在阿富汗地震中遇难

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2025-09-02

48 分钟
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Emergency crews are struggling to reach the mountainous eastern Kunar province of Afghanistan where the UN says more than 800 people have been killed in a magnitude 6.0 earthquake. We speak to the Afghan Red Crescent. Also in the programme: China, India and Russia unite in their criticism of the West at a summit in the northern Chinese city of Tianjin; and why millions of people around the world who take an aspirin a day to ward off strokes and heart attacks might soon be taking a different drug. (IMAGE: Afghan men search for their belongings amidst the rubble of a collapsed house after a deadly magnitude-6 earthquake that struck Afghanistan around midnight, in Dara Mazar, in Kunar province, Afghanistan, September 1, 2025 / CREDIT: Reuters/Stringer)
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  • This BBC podcast is supported by ads outside the UK.

  • You're listening to NewsHour, direct from the BBC World Service in London.

  • I'm Gary O'Donoghue.

  • We begin the programme in Afghanistan,

  • where rescuers are attempting to get to a remote part of the north-east of the country where an earthquake hit late on Sunday.

  • The epicentre was in the Kunar province,

  • a mountainous and hard-to-get-to rural area bordering Pakistan.

  • The most up-to-date figures we have suggest more than 800 people have died,

  • with thousands being injured.

  • landslides have also destroyed buildings and villages in the area.

  • For the latest, I'm joined by the BBC's Azadeh Moshiri,

  • who's following events from neighbouring Pakistan.

  • Azadeh, tell us what the latest issue have.

  • Well, it's been very difficult to get information out of that area,

  • given how remote Kunar province is.

  • That's where most casualties are being reported from so far.

  • But we do now have this update from the UN's humanitarian agency,

  • which says their preliminary reporting suggests at least 800 people have died across four provinces.

  • They've also said that at least 2,000 people are estimated to be injured, and many of them,

  • and this is the challenge,