Quakes deal fresh blow to poor Afghans deported from Pakistan


MASUD, Afghanistan (Reuters) -Deported from Pakistan in June, Nazar Shah was struggling to rebuild his life in Afghanistan when it was hit by a midnight earthquake. Six of his relatives were killed, his elderly stepmother was injured and his stone-and-mud home destroyed.

Four days on, the 40-year-old Shah and around 20 members of his family sleep under a tarpaulin erected by a river, in the path of possible floods, and experience daily aftershocks.

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