The night the mountains shook: A doctor on the front lines of Afghanistan’s earthquake
Photo #39388 07 September 2025, 08:15

The first jolt threw Dr. Abdul Mateen Sahak out of bed. The second sent him to his phone. It was right before midnight, last Sunday, and the steep, mountainous valleys of eastern Afghanistan had just been hit by a powerful 6.0-magnitude earthquake, closely followed by the first of many aftershocks.

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