Landslide buries houses in eastern Afghanistan, many killed



ISTANBUL:

At slightest 5 bodies were retrieved from sand after a landslide buried houses in eastern Afghanistan, internal officials pronounced on Monday.

The landslide strike during slightest 20 houses in a Tatin encampment of a Nurgram district in a eastern Nuristan province, a Kabul-based Hurriyat Radio English reported.

Efforts to redeem others are underway, it added.

Provincial officials voiced fears that a series of casualties might increase.

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The area witnessed complicated rainfall in a past few days.

Meanwhile, dual miners were killed and another chairman was harmed after being strike by an avalanche in a northeastern Panjshir province.

The occurrence happened Sunday night in a Mukani encampment of a province’s Hese-Awal district, a Kabul-based Tolo News reported.