Despite not having tents for protection, Afghan earthquake survivors are refusing to return to their destroyed villages and are instead sleeping in fields and along riverbanks out of fear that aftershocks would send rocks tumbling from the mountains.
Adam Khan, 67, a farmer, stood outside his destroyed house in Masud village, in the eastern Kunar province of Afghanistan, which was leveled by the recent earthquakes. “We have no shelter, not even a tent,” he added. “We had nowhere to hide when it rained last night. The large rocks that could fall at any time are our greatest dread.
Since August 31, the area has had two earthquakes that have flattened thousands of mud-and-stone homes and left over 2,200 people dead and over 3,600 injured.
