Four people have died as starving Afghans stampeded for food in a refugee camp. Among the dead is a girl of about four, who has been buried with the others near the camp in a cemetery.
The camp, north-west of Herat, is already home to 100,000 refugees. The girl's mother said: "I'm happy for her because she died quickly. What is the use of living like this?"
Thousands more refugees are arriving at the camp, mostly from drought-stricken north western Badghis and Ghor provinces.
The camp has been unable to accommodate recent arrivals. Thousands of people have been living in a field ringed with human waste.
There are fears that communicable diseases are spreading. Few of the refugees had even a thin blanket to protect themselves against the near-freezing temperatures.
Refugee Mr Abdul Karim said the daily struggle for scraps of food from the refugee camp has resulted in other stampedes. Conditions were even worse in the mountains of Ghor, where drought means there is no hope of food and no trees to burn for heat.
UNICEF estimate that up to 100,000 children in camps and cities inside Afghanistan could die of cold, disease and hunger if essential relief supplies are not made available in the next few weeks.