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After travelling all night, we arrived at a large plateau where we were bombed by Soviet aircraft. One person and one donkey died and one person was wounded. We buried the dead and spend the day recovering. We walked all that following night to bypass an army outpost and had just settled down about 6AM to sleep in a mud hut. We were awakened shortly thereafter as a large earthquake (>6.5 Magnitude) hit the region shaking and damaging  the hut. We ran outside where I took this picture just as the mountains were "smoking" from the rock avalanches cascading down the mountains.