Thousands Feared Dead in Afghan Landslide

Rescuers and hundreds of volunteers in northeastern Afghanistan are working desperately to find survivors of a massive landslide triggered by heavy rain on Friday that killed around 2,000 people and left hundreds of others missing.Using their hands and shovels, rescuers are trying to dig through at least 10 meters of mud and debris that collapsed under torrential rains and buried hundreds of homes in the remote northeastern Argo district of Badakhshan Province.The governor of the province...

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