Shafaqna English- Survivors of a powerful earthquake that destroyed homes in Afghanistan are now struggling to find shelter while facing heavy rainfall and the approaching winter cold. Their concerns are shared by those who survived an even more devastating earthquake two months earlier.
“We lost all of our belongings,” a survivor of the earthquake told the AFP news agency. “Winter is coming. We have children aged four and five. Where can we go? For two nights now, we have been staying with relatives.”
Rain has transformed dirt paths into muddy pools around collapsed walls and fallen roofs. Similar destruction was visible in eastern Afghanistan following a shallow magnitude 6.0 earthquake in late August that killed more than 2,200 people; the deadliest in Afghanistan’s recent history.
Sources: Aljazeera