{"id":19766,"date":"2026-04-04T09:41:24","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T09:41:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/?p=19766"},"modified":"2026-04-04T09:41:27","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T09:41:27","slug":"afghanistan-5-8-magnitude-earthquake-death-toll-rises-to-12-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/2026\/04\/04\/afghanistan-5-8-magnitude-earthquake-death-toll-rises-to-12-people\/","title":{"rendered":"Afghanistan 5.8-magnitude earthquake death toll rises to 12 people"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>KABUL: The death toll from a 5.8-magnitude earthquake that struck Afghanistan has risen to 12, with two others injured, authorities said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Afghan Red Crescent Society said in a statement that the quake\u2019s epicenter was in Badakhshan province, warning that the number of casualties may increase.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rescue and medical teams have been deployed to affected areas and have begun emergency response efforts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Earlier, local officials in Kabul province confirmed that eight members of a single family were martyred in the Gusfand Dara area following the quake.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The tremor was also felt in neighboring Pakistan and Tajikistan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KABUL: The death toll from a 5.8-magnitude earthquake that struck Afghanistan has risen to 12, with two others injured, authorities said. The Afghan Red Crescent Society said in a statement that the quake\u2019s epicenter was in Badakhshan province, warning that the number of casualties may increase. Rescue and medical teams have been deployed to affected [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":19767,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[85],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19766"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19766"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19766\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19768,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19766\/revisions\/19768"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}