More than 2,000 people were feared dead Saturday as aid agencies rushed to the scene of landslides in northeastern Afghanistan that buried parts of a remote village in nearly thirty feet of mud. Thousands more have been displaced by the landslides, which occurred Friday morning after weeks of heavy rainfall, marking one of the country’s deadliest natural disasters in more than a decade.
By Saturday morning, an array of aid agencies had descended on the village of Abi Barak in the Argo district of Badakhshan Province, near the borders with China and Tajikistan. A delegation of high-level officials was also on its way to the affected areas with cash to aid displaced families. Various United Nations agencies, as well as the Afghan Red Crescent Society and other nongovernmental organizations, were already on the ground, the United Nations said.
But the task of recovery, given the scale of the disaster, was expected to be onerous...
By Saturday morning, an array of aid agencies had descended on the village of Abi Barak in the Argo district of Badakhshan Province, near the borders with China and Tajikistan. A delegation of high-level officials was also on its way to the affected areas with cash to aid displaced families. Various United Nations agencies, as well as the Afghan Red Crescent Society and other nongovernmental organizations, were already on the ground, the United Nations said.
But the task of recovery, given the scale of the disaster, was expected to be onerous...
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