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Scores killed in Afghan floods
Scores of people have been killed and hundreds have fled their homes after heavy rains caused floods and avalanches in large areas of Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Government officials said at least 30 people died in the central Afghan province of Daikundi and seven in Heart.
Afghanistan had been suffering a drought before the rainfall, the heaviest it has suffered in years, struck last week.
A ministry official said that 600 people urgently needed to be evacuated from the southern province of Uruguzan to escape rising waters.
Villagers missing
Eleven more were killed in across other areas of Afghanistan while avalanches in neighbouring Pakistan killed at least 23 people on Saturday night.
Rescue workers are struggling to find 15 more people missing in Turkoh, a remote village in the Hindu Kush mountains in the Chitral region.
Hundreds of cattle were also killed by the rains as the floods inundated thousands of hectares of land and washed away or damaged bridges around the country, including in the capital, Kabul.
Rains also caused avalanches and landslides in northeast Afghanistan, where nearly 20 people died last week.
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http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/572C2E1E-0575-4E5E-8992-43E2B4D1651B.htm
Afghanistan had been suffering a drought before the rainfall, the heaviest it has suffered in years, struck last week.
A ministry official said that 600 people urgently needed to be evacuated from the southern province of Uruguzan to escape rising waters.
Villagers missing
Eleven more were killed in across other areas of Afghanistan while avalanches in neighbouring Pakistan killed at least 23 people on Saturday night.
Rescue workers are struggling to find 15 more people missing in Turkoh, a remote village in the Hindu Kush mountains in the Chitral region.
Hundreds of cattle were also killed by the rains as the floods inundated thousands of hectares of land and washed away or damaged bridges around the country, including in the capital, Kabul.
Rains also caused avalanches and landslides in northeast Afghanistan, where nearly 20 people died last week.
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http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/572C2E1E-0575-4E5E-8992-43E2B4D1651B.htm
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