Some in isolated areas of the affected Kunar province are still isolated from the aid by land landslides caused by earthquake and replicas.
The families hurried and homeless days after a mortal earthquake hit East Afghanistan, he does not dare to set foot in the few remaining buildings for fear that a replica can tear them down.
The powerful Magnitude of 6.0 magnitude hit remote regions along the border with Pakistan, killing more than 1,400 people, with at least six strong and innumerable replicas smaller tremors.
Some agricultural villages hidden among the green mountains were flattened, with people still under the rubble days later.
In other places, some houses were only partially destroyed, but residents preferred to challenge the elements instead of risking to be crushed.
Still pursued by the “terrifying night” when the earthquake destroyed his house in the town of Dar-Nur in the province of Nangarhar, Emran Mohammad Aref said that since then he had slept with four other family members outside in a rough plastic mat.
“There was a tremor yesterday and there was also one this morning,” Aref told AFP
“Now we have no place to live and we are asking for everyone.”
While those with the media fled from the village, the residents who had no choice who remained soaked in makeshift shelters with what they could find among the destruction.
Even in Jalalabad, the provincial capital of Nangarhar, who did not suffer damage, but felt the earthquake and his replicas, “we are very afraid,” said Fereshta, a 42 -year -old doctor.
“Every time I take a step, I feel that the floor is trembling. We are not inside the house and we sleep in the garden, constantly thinking that there will be another earthquake,” he said.
‘Dam us shelter’
Similar scenes are developing throughout the affected region, some in the isolated areas of the province of Kunar, which are still isolated from the aid for landslides caused by the earthquake and replicas.
But when fleeing their homes, often built on high grounds, and taking refuge in low fields, river beds or by the edges of the roads, the survivors run the risk of being hit by rock falls if they attack the replicas, warned Ijaz Ulhaq Yaad, a senior official in the Kunar district in the district of Nururgal.
“The area is very dangerous, you can’t stay there for a long time or even walk through it,” Yaad said.
The United Nations said it has 14,000 tents ready for distribution.
The International Federation of Red Cross societies and Crescent Red (Iffif) said AFP It has at least 700 tents available, but cannot deliver them to the survivors due to the difficult access to the villages.
“Help us, give us refuge, help my children, we have nothing left,” Srarat begged, a housewife wounded in the earthquake along with her husband and children.
After being taken from the ruins of his house by rescuers, he was treated in a regional hospital, then sent back to his people, where nothing awaits him, he said AFP
While we wait for help, “we stay in the valley,” he said, sitting in his blue burka that surrounds everything in a traditional bed and simple tissue surrounded by his three young children.
This earthquake, one of the most mortal in Afghanistan in decades, is “the last thing that families with young children need in a country where many do not have enough food, and a large part of the children are already malnourished,” said the World Food Program, and added the situation “is brutal.”
Afghanistan, still fragile after decades of war and a prolonged humanitarian crisis, has been shaken by other serious and fatal earthquakes in recent years, one in 2023 in western Herat, on the other side of the country near Iran.
That first tremor of 6.3 was followed by at least eight powerful replicas and destroyed entire peoples.
Image of the heading: The Afghan children sit in the rubble of a house after a mortality of magnitude-6 that hit Afghanistan on Sunday in the district of Nurgal, Kunar province of the country, on September 3.-Reuters
