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International Business Times
International Business Times
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Earthquake In Afghan Village Leaves No Family Untouched

Taliban security personnel carry an Afghan earthquake victim evacuated by a military helicopter (Credit: AFP)

No household was spared death or injury in the village of Wadir when a powerful earthquake shook eastern Afghanistan, reducing homes to piles of rubble.

Aftershocks from the 6.0-magnitude earthquake continued to rumble across the scenes of destruction, where remains of dead livestock jutted out from a tangle of broken beams and muddy, flattened homes.

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