After Deadly Earthquake in Afghanistan, Emergency Aid Trickles In NYT | Top Stories By: Safiullah Padshah and Elian Peltier 3 September 2025 at 01:31 Villages remain cut off in the remote, mountainous areas in the east that have been hardest hit by the disaster, which has killed at least 1,400 people. © Safiullah Padshah/The New York TimesCarrying the body of a woman in the village of Shamraz in Kunar Province, Afghanistan. She was killed in the earthquake that hit Sunday night.