in more than two decades were on Friday without food, shelter and water as they waited in devastated villages for relief workers to reach them, with rain compounding their misery.
Reuters reported Mohammad Nassim Haqqani, a spokesperson for the disaster ministry, as saying on Friday that authorities haveafter about 48 hours following the quake, but did not elaborate on the reasons. Officials say nearly 10,000 houses were destroyed, an alarming number in an area where the average household size is more than 20 people.
Afghanistan's Bermal district, in southeastern Paktika province, was among the regions hardest hit by a deadly 5.9-magnitude earthquake that levelled several remote villages.
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