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A few metres away from the piles of stones that were once the first homes as you entered their small village,\u00a0three men sat on a traditional woven bed.<\/p>\n
One of them was Hayat\u2019s cousin, Mehboob.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen the earthquake happened, my 13-year-old son Nasib Ullah was sleeping next to me. I woke up, got out of bed, and started looking for the torch. Then, suddenly, the whole room moved from the falling rocks. When I tried to reach my son, the wall and the floor slid down, and I couldn\u2019t catch him,\u201d the 36-year-old explained.<\/p>\n
\u201c[It was] worse than the day of judgement.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHouses collapsed, boulders from the mountain came crumbling down; you couldn\u2019t see anything, we couldn\u2019t see each other.\u201d<\/p>\n
Everyone was injured, he explained. Some had broken ribs and broken legs.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn the dark, we took our kids who were still alive to the farmland below, where it was safer from the boulders.\u201d<\/p>\n
Children’s clothes left on the ground following the earthquake [Sorin Furcoi\/Al Jazeera]<\/p>\n
That night, he counted more than 250 tremors, he said: aftershocks that continue to shake the valley even weeks after the earthquake.<\/p>\n
When daylight came, he tried to dig through the rubble to find his loved ones. \u201cBut my body didn\u2019t want to work,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cI could see my son\u2019s foot, but the rest of his body had disappeared under the rubble.\u201d<\/p>\n
His 10-year-old daughter, Aisha, had also been killed.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was the worst moment of my life,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
It took two days for villagers and volunteers to recover the bodies.<\/p>\n
When Hayat\u2019s brother, Rahmat Gul, received a message from his brother telling him that the entire village was gone, he immediately rushed there from his home in Parwan province, some 300km (185 miles) away.<\/p>\n
When he finally reached Aurak Dandila, the surviving villagers asked him to wrap Mehboob\u2019s dead son in a blanket.<\/p>\n
\u201cMehboob asked me to show him the face of his son, but I could not do it,\u201d Rahmat Gul explained as Mehboob, sitting beside him, looked out over the farmland in the valley below.<\/p>\n
Hayat Khan lost four members of his family during the earthquake [Sorin Furcoi\/Al Jazeera]<\/p>\n
Nearby, Hayat stood up and began pacing.<\/p>\n
\u201cGod has taken my sons from me, and now I feel like I have left this world as well,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
In Aurak Dandila, a small cornfield has become a graveyard. \u201cHere is where we buried our loved ones,\u201d Hayat said. The graves are marked by stones.<\/p>\n
He remembers how he had urged Abdul Haq to stay in the village. \u201cThe next day, everything was gone, and he lost his life.\u201d<\/p>\n
Now, Hayat believes, \u201cthere is nothing left to live here for\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cHow can I continue living here?\u201d he asked, pointing at the debris of what was once his home.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe stones are coming from above; how can anyone live in this village?”<\/p>\n
“We will settle somewhere else, and we will look for the mercy of God. If he has no mercy on us, then we will also die.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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