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This Nepal village has survived for 1,000 years. Now recurring floods threaten its future

Til village in Nepal faces abandonment as climate-driven landslides and lack of government aid force relocation of centuries-old communities.
fromwww.aljazeera.com
1 month ago

When stones fell from the sky

It was a Sunday evening in late August when Hayat Khan returned to his home in the tiny village of Aurak Dandila. The 55-year-old farmer had been celebrating a wedding at a neighbour's house one of just nine stone homes built into the mountainside. Partially concealed behind corn stalks and tall grass deep in the mountains of Afghanistan's Kunar province, Aurak Dandila overlooks a patchwork of small farms, where the villagers grow corn and beans, walnuts and apricots.
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