Overview

• Taliban officials updated the toll to 2,205 dead and about 3,640 injured, with search operations ongoing as WHO warns the window to find survivors is closing.
• Kunar province suffered the vast majority of casualties, with villages flattened and more than 6,700 homes reported destroyed across the worst-hit areas.
• Repeated aftershocks and rockfalls have blocked mountain roads, forcing helicopter evacuations, airdropped commandos, and aid teams to trek long distances to reach cut-off communities.
• Humanitarian agencies report acute shortfalls: WHO launched a $4 million appeal, WFP says stocks may last only four weeks, IFRC is seeking 25 million Swiss francs, and NRC cites staffing and funding gaps.
• UNHCR says the disaster has affected more than 500,000 people, while governments have begun assistance including UK £1 million, Australia $1 million via the UN fund, and India airlifting 21 tonnes of relief supplies.