Afghanistan mourns landslide victims

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(CNN) — Sunday is a day of anguish in Afghanistan for a victims of two landslides that incited a encampment into a mass grave final week.

TV and radio stations dangling a promote of party programming to commemorate Friday’s tragedy.

The initial landslide, triggered by complicated rain, swallowed 300 to 400 homes in a Argo district of Badakhshan range in northeastern Afghanistan, where an estimated 2,700 people lived, authorities said.

When as many as 600 people from a circuitously encampment came to assistance puncture people out, another landslide swept through, burying most, if not all, of a rescuers, according to provincial administrator Shah Waliullah Adeeb.

The governor’s bureau pronounced during slightest 2,000 people died in all.

Efforts are now focused on about 4,000 survivors and evacuees. United Nations charitable groups are rounding adult food, H2O and medical supplies. A NATO organisation is promulgation a C-130 ride craft from Kabul airfield with supplies, including tents and blankets, officials say.

Afghans are also donating to charities to assistance a victims. Hamim Jalalzai, an Afghan journalist, pronounced on Facebook that he was partial of a organisation of people who went from emporium to emporium in Kabul, holding adult donations.

Meteorologists advise that intensity sleet foresee for Monday and Tuesday could serve bushel rescue efforts and trigger another landslide.

Michael Martinez, Yousuf Basil and Qadir Sediqi contributed to this story.


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