Overview

• Taliban authorities report more than 1,400 dead and over 3,300 injured after a shallow magnitude-6.0 earthquake struck late Sunday near the Pakistan border.
• Destruction is concentrated in Kunar province, where mud-brick homes collapsed overnight, with more than 5,400 houses reported destroyed.
• Access remains severely restricted as landslides block narrow mountain tracks, leaving some villages unreached days after the quake.
• Officials say 155 helicopter flights have evacuated about 2,000 injured people and relatives, with coordination sites established near the epicentre.
• Aid groups warn of a deepening crisis as needs for food, water, shelter and medical care outpace deliveries, with limited NGO deployments and Afghan diaspora fundraising efforts underway.