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Al Jazeera
Al Jazeera
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Sorin Furcoi

‘My village is a graveyard’: Afghans describe devastation after earthquake

A displacement camp in Khas Kunar, eastern Afghanistan, is lined with tents provided by international NGOs. Some 5,000 people are sheltering there after a devastating earthquake [Sorin Furcoi/Al Jazeera]

Khas Kunar, Afghanistan – Stoori was pulled out from under the rubble of his house in Kunar province after it was destroyed by the magnitude 6 earthquake which struck on the night of August 31. But the guilt of not being able to save his wife haunts him.

“I barely had enough time to pull out the body of my dead wife and place her on the rubble of our collapsed home before my children and I were evacuated,” the grief-stricken 40-year-old farmer says.

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