Thousands of Afghans out in cold after deadly quakes
Wednesday, 11 October 2023 Thousands of Afghans who survived a powerful earthquake that killed more than 2,000 people were bracing for a winter of homelessness on Tuesday, as rescuers made last-ditch efforts to find survivors. More than 1,000 people were killed and tens of thousands left homeless in June last year after a 5.9-magnitude quake struck the impoverished province of Paktika.
"Our family was killed here. How could we live here?," says 40 year-old Mohammad Naeem as he sits near the house where he lost 12 family members in a series of quakes that killed at least 1,000 people in western Afghanistan. Like him, thousands of Afghans who survived the quake on 7 October are...
Wednesday, 11 October 2023
