‘It felt like the heavens were falling’: Afghans reel from Moab impact
Locals describe the moment the ‘mother of all bombs’ was dropped, as critics question the wisdom of deploying the weapon By Sune Engel Rasmussen in Kabul / The Guardian / Friday 14 April 2017 10.51 EDT After his evening prayers, Mohammad Shahzadah closed the house gates and sat down for dinner. Then the blast came, engulfing the sky in flames and sending tremors through the ground. “The earth felt like a boat in a storm,” Shahzadah said. “I thought my house was being bombed.