'Don't send money. Send engineers'

Maulvi's son Abdul Kadir is now worried about relief money. "For the first 2-3 days, even brothers were of no help to one another. Every family had its own pain to bear. In my own family, six people died. We were the only two men. How could we bury six people?" The burial took two days. "My biggest pain," he says, "is that only my father and mother could be offered new shrouds by the police. My own daughter and my brothers' children couldn't even be covered with decent shrouds."

None of the families here have been able to bury their loved ones in the family graveyards because there were no helping hands. Kadir says the road leading to their graveyard has vanished. Maulvi's family has another dilemma. How do they erect a new home on the spot where 19 family members died? "It will haunt us forever," says Kadir.

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