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Bamyan’s cave-dwellers don’t have access to basic necessities of life

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BAMYAN CITY (Pajhwok): Thousands of cave-dwellers near the Taliban-dynamited Buddha statues in central Bamyan province are suffering from poverty, health issues and deadly animals such as snicks, scorpions threatens their lives as well.

Around 3,000 caves are dotted around the famous Buddha statues, inhabited by 250 families from Bamyan and other provinces. Caught up in grinding poverty, the people living here do not have other shelters.

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