shock and despair after destroyed whole villages

Before midnight on Sunday, Matula Shahab woke up to find his home in a distant Afghan province.

An earthquake of 6.0 values ​​impressed with East Afghanistan, leaving at least 800 people of the dead, the UN reports.

Despite the fact that the epicenter of the earthquake was 16 km, the whole village of Shahaba Assadabad trembled. 23 family members who live with him ran out of their bedrooms when they were afraid that the walls would fall on them, and all night in their garden remained awake. “We were all afraid,” he says.

Back affected by the earthquake were the provinces of Nangarhar and Kunar, but it felt as far away as Kabul and in the neighboring capital of Pakistan Islamabad.

When the day broke through, Mother – who is a freelance journalist and human rights activist – went from his home to try to get to the remote mountainous zone at the epicenter of the earthquake.

He says he needed to get out of his car and walk two hours before he arrived in the worst villages because there were stones on the road.

He arrived in the village of Andarlachak to find several young children lying on the street. A couple of toddlers lay together on a stretcher with bruises on his chest and faces.

Other children were wrapped in white sheets. About 79 people were killed in this village.

“I have seen a lot of corpses,” says Matiullah BBC. “I felt the jolts 17 times.”

Mother’s mother helped local people dig graves for many people who died.

“The villages I visited were destroyed,” he says. One man told Shababa that his wife and four children died. But most were too shocked to talk.

“The peoples faces were covered with dust, and there was silence,” he said. “They were like robots – no one could talk about it.”

From the blocked roads, government rescue operations Taliban relied on helicopters to get to the mountain villages. But the distant, mountainous terrain means that some places remain inaccessible, while there are reports of people who die under the rubble, waiting for salvation.

Matiula says the volunteers tried to save people who were trapped and saw two women pulled out of the destroyed house.

“They came out of them, suffered, and are now in the hospital,” he says. He was not allowed to take pictures of the rescue operation because the Taliban does not allow photos of women.

Many residents are now sleeping outdoors and need tents, Mother adds.

Another resident of Kunar in the juic area, Ezotula Sophie, says that part of his home collapsed in the earthquake.

“I woke up with shouts of children, women and animals,” he says the BBC.

“The earthquake was intense, and the night felt like a small apocalypse. The strong winds followed, and the light rain fell. My kids clutched at me, crying with fear. The dust filled the air.

“The mobile network immediately declined. We couldn’t contact our relatives. We counted with the damaged home and without electricity.”

He says government helicopters arrived in the morning and raised injuries from the mountains to the main highway of Kunar, where they were transported vehicles to the outpatient clinics.

“There is a difficult atmosphere of sadness,” Ezzatula notes.

“() Electricity comes out, the markets remained closed all day. Some districts are still unavailable -distant villages five hours in the mountains.”

Additional Iffi Khan report