Afghan earthquake survivors refuse to return to villages, fearing landslides

(Corrects time of occurrence of the two quakes to …since around midnight on Aug. 31… not on Sept. 1, in paragraph 4)

By Mohammed Yunus Yawar and Sayed Hassib

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…