“The building started moving, slowly, from side to side … then faster. I woke up and I called my father, and family in Kabul,” says Shokrullah, who was at his home in Gardez in Paktia province, 61km (38 miles) from the epicentre of a devastating 5.9 magnitude earthquake that hit eastern Afghanistan early on Wednesday.
“I was scared and I had this bad feeling inside me … that this was going to be very bad for Afghanistan because this is a very poor country, the people’s houses here are not strong. And then I thought we don’t have enough medicine or beds in this national army hospital.”
