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SHATTERING SCENE Damaged houses in Gayan district, in Afghanistan’s Paktika province, are seen on Wednesday, June 22, 2022, after a killer 6-magnitude earthquake struck the area and killed at least 1,000 people. AFP PHOTO
SHATTERING SCENE Damaged houses in Gayan district, in Afghanistan’s Paktika province, are seen on Wednesday, June 22, 2022, after a killer 6-magnitude earthquake struck the area and killed at least 1,000 people. AFP PHOTO

GAYAN, Afghanistan: Survivors on Thursday dug by hand through villages in eastern Afghanistan that were reduced to rubble by a powerful earthquake that killed at least 1,000 people, as the Taliban and the international community that fled their takeover struggled to aid the disaster's victims.

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