Afghans living in the northern mountains have largely been
spared from the country’s decades of war, but are no strangers to natural
disasters.
More than 80 bodies have been found
two days after a devastating flash flood in Afghanistan’s mountainous and
remote north, a provincial official said on Sunday.
Police and villagers
scoured the rugged terrain for missing people and army helicopters flew in
supplies to thousands left the death toll from Friday’s flash flooding had
climbed to 81 from 54.
Police and villagers
scoured the rugged terrain for missing people and army helicopters flew in
supplies to thousands left the death toll from Friday’s flash flooding had
climbed to 81 from 54.
850 houses across
several villages were completely destroyed and more than 1,000 were damaged by
the heavy rain and flooding, leaving thousands of people in need of shelter,
food, water and medicine.
According to Defence Ministry spokesman General Mohammad
Zahir Azimi, local authorities had received around 100 tents, several hundred
blankets and some food, but 
that more supplies were needed, homeless by the
disaster.
that more supplies were needed, homeless by the
disaster.
Last month, a landslide triggered by heavy rain buried large
sections of a remote village in the northeastern Badakhshan province bordering
China, displacing some 700 families.
Authorities have yet
to provide an exact figure on the number of dead from the May 2 landslide, and
estimates have ranged from 250 to 2,700. Officials said it was impossible to
dig up all the bodies.
A landslide in Baghlan province in 2012 killed 71 people.
After days of digging unearthed only five bodies, authorities gave up on the
recovery effort and turned the area into a memorial.
Source: Agencies
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