Dr Abuelaish, his eight children and other family members hoped they would be safe huddling in the big house they had built on the outskirts of the refugee camp.

Despite the poor conditions, millions of Afghans have returned home from abroad. Here Afghan refugees build a mud house at a refugee camp in Kabul. (AFP).

Early the third morning Tom Sawyer wisely went poking among some old empty hogsheads down behind the abandoned slaughter-house, and in one of them he found the refugee.