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.