It is a breathtaking and, at points, pretty perilous journey through the remote mountainous region of eastern Afghanistan.

We're trying to reach the Mazar Dara valley, where an earthquake wiped out whole villages . The force of the quake ripped apart roads, cut off communities and buried multiple generations .

It's slow going - navigating around sheer drops on a road scattered with rocks and boulders. But after three hours, we start to see the first signs of the disaster that, within minutes, plunged this region into darkness.

We are driving into Wadir, a village in Nurgal District, where everyone we meet has lost someone. The earthquake , which struck around midnight, killed many in their sleep here, especially women and children.

Standing by a makeshift graveyard peppered

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