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A 6.0 earthquake rocked Afghanistan Sunday night, leaving more than 1,400 dead and at least 3,000 injured.

Everything was destroyed. It's still shaking now. I'm waiting for help from God, the Islamic Emirate, and the international community, because I have lost everything.

I have nothing left.

Rescue crews struggled to reach affected areas in remote parts of the country's Koonar province,

as powerful aftershocks continued to rattle the area. All of this in a country already reeling from deep cuts to aid funding, a struggling

economy, and an influx of millions of Afghans forcibly returned from Iran and Pakistan.

After the break, we're joined by Susanna Walden. She's the Kabul Bureau Chief for Ajance

France Press. She joins us from Kabul Afghanistan. And the story is rapidly changing. For all

the latest, be sure to tune into your local member station and visit npr.org. We'll be back with

more in a moment.

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To the program. Hi, Jen. Thank you so much for having me. So give us a sense of the latest numbers of deaths and injuries from Sunday's quake. Yeah, so we recently had an update today.

There weren't a lot of updates throughout the day, but the Taliban

authorities told us not long ago that the death toll had gone up to 1,469 in total. So it wasn't a

massive jump today, as we saw in the past two days in the immediate wake of the quake. But

unfortunately, I think there's still a possibility that

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