350 killed, hundreds more missing after landslide in northeastern Afghanistan

Afghanistan350 killed, hundreds more missing after landslide in northeastern Afghanistan

Hundreds missing after landslide in northeast Afghanistan

KABUL: A landslide and flash floods triggered by heavy rains buried a village in northeastern Afghanistan on Friday that left at least 350 persons dead and several hundred more missing.

The landslide which occurred in the mountainous district of Argo in Badakhshan province also buried some 300 homes under rocks and mud.

“There were more than 1,000 families living in that village,” a spokesman for the Badakhshan governor Naweed Forotan told a foreign news agency.

“A total of 2,100 people, men, women and children are trapped,” the spokesman added.

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