Afghan rescuers search for survivors under threat of third landslide (Reuters, May 3 2014): 2,000+ missing, feared buried

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[Source: Reuters, full page: (LINK).]


Afghan rescuers search for survivors under threat of third landslide

KABUL (Reuters) - Afghan police and villagers began a dangerous search for more than 2,000 people buried under a massive landslide in a remote mountainous region in the northeast on Saturday, amid concern the unstable hillside may cave in again.

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[Giuseppe]

Re: Afghan rescuers search for survivors under threat of third landslide (Reuters, May 3 2014): 2,000+ missing, feared buried

[Source: The Independent, full page: (LINK).]


Afghanistan landslide: Over 2,000 feared dead in remote Hobo Barik village

Officials in Afghanistan have said that at least 2,000 people are feared dead after a mountainside collapsed causing a massive landslide in a remote region of the country.

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[Giuseppe]

Re: Afghan rescuers search for survivors under threat of third landslide (Reuters, May 3 2014): 2,000+ missing, feared buried

[Source: The Guardian, full page: (LINK).]


More than 2,100 confirmed dead in Afghan landslides

Nato and US offer troops' help as rescuers scramble in desperate search for survivors. At least 2,100 people were killed in massive landslides that struck a remote region of Afghanistan on Friday. A spokesman for the governor in Badakhshan province, bordering Tajikistan, said on Saturday that 2,100 people had been confirmed dead after a village was buried in up to 100 metres of mud.

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[Giuseppe]

Re: Afghan rescuers search for survivors under threat of third landslide (Reuters, May 3 2014): 2,000+ missing, feared buried

[Source: Time, full page: (LINK).]


Over 2,100 Confirmed Dead in Afghanistan Landslide

by Krista Mahr


The death toll of a catastrophic landslide in a remote part of Afghanistan rose to at least 2,100 on Saturday, after a rescue effort slowed by lack of equipment and bad conditions.

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