New cargo flights of aid supplies arrived in Afghanistan from Pakistan, Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan, officials said. Aid groups said they feared cholera could break out after damage to water and hygiene systems. In the district of Spera in Khost province on Saturday, UNICEF distributed water purification tablets along with soap and other hygiene materials. Five members of his family were injured when his house collapsed. We need all kind of support, and we request the international community and Afghans who can help to come forward and help us,” said Dawlat Khan, a resident of Paktika’s Gayan District. The U.N.’s humanitarian coordinating organization OCHA said it had reports of 700-800 families in the area still living out in the open. It’s a fear felt across the quake-hit region, where nearly 3,000 homes are believed to have been destroyed. Summer is short in the mountains, nights are already chilly. Miradin residents told the Associated Press they worried whether they’d be able to rebuild before the harsh winter hits, in only a few months. In the rainy nights since, its several hundred residents have been sleeping in nearby woods and had still not received the aid that was slowly making its way into quake-hit areas. There is little fertile land, so residents eke out what they can while largely relying on money sent by relatives who have migrated to Pakistan, Iran or further abroad for jobs.Įvery one of the nearly two dozen homes in one village, Miradin, were reduced to rubble by Wednesday’s quake. The quake, which state media says killed at least 1,150 people, hit hardest in a region of high mountains where Paktika and Khost provinces meet by the Pakistani border. Even as more aid arrived Saturday, many residents have no idea how they will rebuild the thousands of homes destroyed in villages strung through the mountains. GAYAN, Afghanistan (AP) - Afghanistan’s deadly earthquake this week struck one of the poorest corners of a country that has been hollowed out by increasing poverty.
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