Chaotic scenes as Afghan landslide victims seek aid


  • World
  • Monday, 05 May 2014

Afghan villagers excavate for dead bodies at the site of a landslide that occured on Friday at the Argo district in Badakhshan province May 5, 2014. REUTERS/Mohammad Ismail

AAB BAREEK Afghanistan (Reuters) - Grief-stricken and destitute Afghan villagers vented anger with their government as they scrambled for emergency aid, three days after deadly landslides engulfed their homes.

Some 300 homes in Aab Bareek, a village in the Argo district of Badakhshan, a remote and mountainous northeastern province, were buried under up to 50 metres of earth and debris.

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