Heavy Rain, Mudslide Wipe Off Afghan Village, 250 Feared Dead

A heavy downpour that led to mudslide has swept off Ab-e-Khoshk in Argu district of Afghanistan today, leaving no fewer than 250 persons missing. They were feared to have been swept away by the slide. The village is lying along the north-east.
Police confirmed today that the mudslide damaged almost the entire village of Ab-e-Khoshk in Argu district this afternoon.
Fazluddin Ayyar, Police Chief of Badakhshan Province said: “Reports say that about 250 people including women and children have gone missing and the locals say all of them have died.”
He told journalists that 200 houses and large areas of farmland were destroyed in the mudslide which was triggered by heavy rain.
“Rescue teams have been dispatched to the area and are trying to evacuate the survivors,” he said
Last week, a total of 100 people were killed and more than 7,000 were displaced by flash floods in four northern provinces.
Afghanistan’s northern and central areas suffer heavy rainfall in the spring.