{"id":421158,"date":"2023-10-10T09:11:09","date_gmt":"2023-10-10T06:11:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/?p=421158"},"modified":"2023-10-10T09:11:09","modified_gmt":"2023-10-10T06:11:09","slug":"number-of-casualties-in-afghanistan-earthquake-tops-4000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/number-of-casualties-in-afghanistan-earthquake-tops-4000\/","title":{"rendered":"Number of casualties in Afghanistan earthquake tops 4,000"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The number of people dead and injured in last week&#8217;s earthquake that jolted northwest Afghanistan has exceeded 4,000, a disaster management official said on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>In a press conference in Kabul, Mullah Janan Saiq, a spokesman for the Disaster Management Ministry, said that some 2,000 houses in 20 villages of the Zinda Jan and Ghorian districts were destroyed in the earthquake.<\/p>\n<p>Saiq said that the ministry is struggling to gather the &#8220;exact&#8221; figures of dead and injured as rescuers scrambled to pull out people trapped under the rubble.<\/p>\n<p>He called upon the international community to help Kabul in responding to the damage caused by the earthquake.<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday, a 6.2 magnitude earthquake jolted the two districts of northwestern Herat province near the border with Iran.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Source: AA<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The number of people dead and injured in last week&#8217;s earthquake that jolted northwest Afghanistan has exceeded 4,000, a disaster management official said on Sunday. In a press conference in Kabul, Mullah Janan Saiq, a spokesman for the Disaster Management Ministry, said that some 2,000 houses in 20 villages of the Zinda Jan and Ghorian [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":120,"featured_media":421159,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[78],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-421158","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/120"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=421158"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":421160,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421158\/revisions\/421160"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/421159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=421158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=421158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=421158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}