Afghanistan, Sept. 8 -- Survivors in eastern Afghanistan remain in temporary camps after a deadly earthquake, too afraid to return home as aftershocks and landslide risks threaten their destroyed villages.
Survivors of Afghanistan's recent earthquake in the eastern provinces remain too afraid to return to their destroyed villages, fearing aftershocks could trigger fresh rockslides from unstable mountains. Many families have pitched tents in fields and by riversides, while others sleep in the open without shelter.
According to Reuters, the devastation has left thousands living in makeshift camps across Kunar and Nangarhar provinces. The September quake killed more than 2,200 people, injured over 3,600, and flattened thousands of mud-and-st...