Buried Alive In Mongolia's Worst Sandstorms In A Decade

This March, as Mongolian herder Batsaikhan Enkhee tended to his sheep, the sky suddenly darkened. The wind picked up, filling his shoes and shirt with coarse, heavy sand. A massive sandstorm had engulfed the Mongolian grasslands. "It was dark like the night," Batsaikhanm, 53, told NPR. "I thought I would die."

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