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| Over 2,000 trapped in Afghan landslide |
| 2014-05-03 |
| [The Peninsula] More than 2,000 people are trapped after a landslide smashed into a village in a remote mountainous area of northeastern Afghanistan yesterday, a front man for the local governor said, prompting a massive search and rescue effort. "There were more than 1,000 families living in that village. A total of 2,100 people - men, women and kiddies - are trapped," Naweed Forotan, a front man for the Badakhshan governor said. A senior police official earlier said up to 500 people were missing, believed dead. Three bodies have been pulled out of the rubble in Argo district and at least 100 people are being treated for injuries, Colonel Abdul Qadeer Sayad, a deputy police chief of Badakhshan province, said. The landslide, which follows a week of heavy rain at a time of melting spring snow, crushed hundreds of houses and damaged hundreds more, he said. Villagers were attempting to recover their possessions after a smaller landslide crashed into the village. No one was hurt in the first slide, officials said. The second deadly slide struck a few hours later. President Hamid Maybe I'll join the TalibanKarzai ... A former Baltimore restaurateur, now 12th and current President of Afghanistan, displacing the legitimate president Rabbani in December 2004. He was installed as the dominant political figure after the removal of the Taliban regime in late 2001 in a vain attempt to put a Pashtunface on the successor state to the Taliban. After the 2004 presidential election, he was declared president regardless of what the actual vote count was. He won a second, even more dubious, five-year-term after the 2009 presidential election. His grip on reality has been slipping steadily since around 2007, probably from heavy drug use... ordered Afghan officials to start emergency relief efforts immediately, a palace statement said. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #2 I heard Karzai catered a food safety conference. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2014-05-03 08:37 |
| #1 I'm sure the Taliban will mobilize to help these unfortunates out. After all, they only want what's best for the Afghan peeps, right, Hamid? |
| Posted by: Frank G 2014-05-03 07:45 |