Taliban fighter returns home to dead family and ruins after earthquake

Afghans, who were injured in the recent earthquake, receive treatment at a hospital ward in Sharana, Afghanistan, June 24, 2022. REUTERS/Ali Khara

ASL ASHA, Afghanistan (Reuters) - Noor Shah Mohammad was serving as a Taliban soldier hundreds of miles from home when disaster struck early on Wednesday morning.

A powerful earthquake reduced much of his village to rubble, killing residents as they slept including his wife, father, two sisters and a brother.