Afghan earthquake survivors refuse to return to villages, fearing landslides


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  • Monday, 08 Sep 2025

FILE PHOTO: A boy stands in front of houses damaged by a deadly earthquake that struck Afghanistan's Kunar and Nangarhar provinces, at Masud village in Nurgal district, Kunar province, Afghanistan, September 4, 2025. REUTERS/Sayed Hassib/File Photo

MASUD, Afghanistan (Reuters) -Haunted by the fear that aftershocks could bring rocks crashing down from the mountains, the survivors of Afghan earthquakes vowed not to return to destroyed villages but camp in fields and on riverbanks instead, even without tents to keep off the rain.

"We have no shelter, not even a tent," said 67-year-old farmer Adam Khan, leaning on a stick outside his ruined home in the village of Masud in Afghanistan's eastern province of Kunar, devastated last week by earthquakes and subsequent aftershocks.

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