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| Afghanistan |
| Flash floods kill 50 in north Afghanistan |
| 2014-06-08 |
| [The Peninsula] Flash floods have killed more than 50 people in northern Afghanistan, washing away hundreds of houses and forcing thousands to flee, provincial authorities said yesterday. "Heavy torrential rains followed by flash floods have killed more than 50 people in Guzargah-e-Nur district of Baghlan province," Mahmood Haqmal, front man for the provincial governor said yesterday. "We have recovered more than 50 bodies from the rubble, including the bodies of women and kiddies, but many others are still missing," Haqmal said. It was an initial corpse count, he said, warning it could rise. Guzargah-e-Nur district governor Noor Mohammad Guzar said the corpse count was 66. "Yesterday's floods have destroyed four villages, and washed away 2,000 residential houses, agricultural fields and also killed thousands of cattle," Guzar added. |
| Posted by:Fred |