Villagers rushed to bury the dead Thursday and dug by hand through the rubble of their homes in search of survivors of a powerful earthquake in eastern Afghanistan that killed at least 1,000 people. The Taliban and the international community that fled their takeover struggled to bring help to the disaster’s victims. Under a leaden sky in Paktika province, which was the epicenter of Wednesday’s magnitude 6 earthquake, men dug a line of graves in one village, as they tried to lay the dead to rest quickly in line with…
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Man uses wife, kids as ‘collateral’ to collect N43,000 at POS shop
A Middle-aged man has abandoned his wife and three children in a Point of Sales shop at Oluku near Benin City, the Edo State capital. Reports had it that the man went to the POS shop with his wife and three children, gave his Automated Teller Machine (ATM) Card to the female POS attendant and requested for the sum of Forty-Three Thousand Naira. Unfortunately, the transaction did not go through; the man then pleaded with the POS attendant to give him the Forty-Three thousand naira (N43,000) to give to…
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