Families still trapped after Afghan quakes

KASHKAK, Oct 09 (AFP): Rescue workers were digging Monday for families still trapped in the rubble of their ruined homes, two days after a series of earthquakes that killed more than 2,000 people in rural western Afghanistan.
"People are trying to search and get their family out of debris," disaster management ministry spokesman Mullah Janan Sayeq told a news conference in the capital, saying reports from the field described "a very bad situation".
Volunteers in trucks packed with food, tents and blankets flocked to hard-to-reach areas 30 kilometres (19 miles) northwest of Herat city, capital of the same-named province, hit by a magnitude 6.3 quake Saturday and eight powerful aftershocks.