‘Many never woke up’: Quake-hit Afghanistan’s villagers recount destruction | Earthquakes News

Andarlachak (Kunar), Afghanistan – Habib-ur Rahman led a simple life as a farmer in Loya Banda village, a few hours’ walk from the camp where he sought refuge in Diwa Gul valley in Chawkay district of eastern Afghanistan’s Kunar province.

The magnitude 6 earthquake, which struck the region on the night of August 31, was unlike any he had lived through before.

“In the past, when there was an earthquake, we…