More than 800 dead in Afghanistan earthquake with at least 2,500 people injured after devastating 6.0 magnitude quake strikes overnight

By JAMES CLARK REYNOLDS, SENIOR FOREIGN NEWS REPORTER and NOOR QURASHI, NEWS REPORTER and TOM MIDLANE

Published: 01:35 EDT, 1 September 2025 | Updated: 10:56 EDT, 1 September 2025

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More than 800 people have been killed with at least 2,500 injured after a 6.0 magnitude earthquake struck eastern Afghanistan late on Sunday. The quake devastated several towns in the province of Kunar, near the Pakistan border, centred 17 miles northeast of the city of Jalabad in Nangarhar.