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Thousands of Afghans out in cold after deadly quakes
Credit: IndiaTimes- Published on October 11, 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...
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Published on October 11, 2023 - 02:47
Thousands of Afghans out in cold after deadly quakes
"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 bracing for a winter of homelessness, as rescuers make last-ditch efforts to find survivors. At least one person was killed and 130 injured on 11 October when western Afghanistan was struck by another 6.3-magnitude earthquake.