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Mud Houses: Afghan and Place Bokhari

mud houses: He says the truck was about to unload its cargo of sand when the accident took place, according to The Chronicle Herald. Bokhari says the shack belonged to an Afghan refugee, Sher Mohammad. Police official Aslam Bokhari says the incident happened on Tuesday in the southwestern city of Quetta. He was not killed but his four children were, along with two women and a man. Pakistan has for years been home to 1.5 million registered and almost 1 million unregistered Afghan refugees, who fled to safety from their war-torn homeland. Quetta has several illegal Afghan refugee settlements built on its outskirts, mainly made up of makeshift mud houses. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.