London – an earthquake of 6.0 struck the east of East Afghanistan on Sunday, destroying several villages and killing hundreds, according to a local official and the United Nations mission.
More than 600 people died and more than 1,300 were injured in the province of Kunar, told MUFTI ABDUL Matin Qani, spokesman for the Ministry of Interior, to the Afghan media on early Monday. Another dozen people died in the province of Nangarhar, he said.
The United Nations Mission in Afghanistan said in a statement that its employees were “deeply sad” by the “devastating” earthquake, which “hundreds of lives were charged, hurting many more.”
The powerful earthquake hit about 17 miles east of Jalalabad, near the border with Pakistan just before midnight, according to preliminary data from the United States geological service.
Afghan injured children receive treatment in a hospital after an earthquake in Jalalabad in Afghanistan on September 1, 2025.
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Afghan Minister of Health said that several villages in the Nurgal de Kunar district, including Sholt, Arit, Mamagal, Wadir and others, had almost destroyed. Others suffered significant damage, said the minister.
Some of the injured had been evacuated and rescue efforts were ongoing, the ministry said.
“Unfortunately, tonight’s earthquake has caused the loss of lives and property damage in some of our eastern provinces,” said Zabihullah Mujahid, government spokesman, in A publication In social networks.
People carry a victim of the earthquake on a stretcher to an ambulance at an airport in Jalalabad, Afghanistan, on September 1, 2025.
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Mujahid said the support teams from the nearby provinces had been sent to the area.
The Ministry of Defense saying A team of 10 members flew about 40 flights outside the area, transporting 420 people to hospitals, including the Daoud Khan Military Hospital. The National Disaster Management Authority saying A convoy that transported response equipment was on its way to the affected areas in Kunar.
The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs in Afghanistan began to coordinate with other international agencies after the earthquake, saying that their “partners are in the field that initiate immediate help efforts.”
In this photo released by the Nangarhar Media Center, the stretchers and ambulances are prepared to receive victims of an earthquake that killed hundreds and destroyed numerous villages in the east of Afghanistan, at Nangarhar airport in Nangarhar, Afghanistan, on Monday, September 1, 2025.
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The UN “would not save any effort to help those in need in the affected areas,” said Secretary General Antonio Guterres.
“I am in full solidarity with the people of Afghanistan after the devastating earthquake that hit the country today,” he, “he saying In social networks. “I extend my deepest condolences to the families of the victims and I want a rapid recovery to the injured.”
ABC News’ Will Gretsky and Jessica Gorman contributed to this report.
