The death toll of children in last week's devastating earthquake in southeastern Afghanistan has risen to at least 155, the United Nations says.
Afghans receive aid at a camp after an earthquake in Gayan district in Paktika province, Afghanistan, Sunday, June 26, 2022. A powerful earthquake struck a rugged, mountainous region of eastern Afghanistan early Wednesday, flattening stone and mud-brick homes in the country's deadliest quake in two decades, the state-run news agency reported.
Even as badly needed food, medicine and other international aid has trickled into the provinces on precarious dirt roads, despair is growing among newly homeless survivors. Many villagers who were scraping by have lost everything.When the earthquake last week demolished his house and those around it, Abdullah tried to claw through the rubble and rescue his children.
He pulled away more rubble from his collapsed mud-and-brick home with a pickaxe, uncovering books that serve as mementos of lives violently upended. Like other villagers, Abdullah now lives with his surviving family members in a donated tent. He fears the freezing winter. “This little child has been left alone,” he said, cradling his swaddled body. The baby's hammock, strung in the corner of their destroyed home, swayed with the weight of fallen bricks. “Who should take care of him?”
The former insurgents have resisted the pressure, imposing restrictions on the freedoms of women and girls that recall their first time in power in the late 1990s, triggering Western backlash.
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