At least 500 people are feared dead after a landslide triggered by heavy rains buried a remote village in Afghanistan today.
Initially, the province's Gov. Shah Waliullah Adeeb said over 1,000 families live in the village. That a total of 2,100 people - men, women and children - were trapped. But police later said that up to 500 are believed to have been killed - with three bodies recovered already.
'At least 400 to 500 people are still under the huge landslide, and they are all believed to be dead. This number may increase,' Colonel Abdul Qadeer Sayad, a deputy police chief of Badakhshan province, told Reuters.
The landslide, which follows a week of heavy rain at a time of melting spring snow, crushed hundreds of houses and damaged hundreds more.
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