{"id":3594,"date":"2014-05-03T05:54:20","date_gmt":"2014-05-03T05:54:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wp3\/?p=3594"},"modified":"2014-05-03T05:54:20","modified_gmt":"2014-05-03T05:54:20","slug":"hundreds-feared-dead-in-afghan-landslide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunnionline.us\/english\/2014\/05\/03\/3594\/","title":{"rendered":"Hundreds feared dead in Afghan landslide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/stories\/news3\/badakhshan_earthquak.jpg\" border=\"0\" style=\"float: right; margin: 5px;\" \/>At least 500 people are feared dead and up to 2000 others missing after a landslide buried a village in northern Afghanistan.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Heavy rains caused a hill to collapse on the village of Hobo Barik on Friday, Badakshan province Governor Shah Waliullah Adeeb said.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Al Jazeera&#8217;s Abdullah Shahood, reporting from Kabul, described the situation as very grim, with at least 250 homes buried under 60 metres of rubble and rescue teams unable to reach them. <\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">He said: &#8220;The landslide brought the entire village under rubble. It is hard to say how many people are trapped but government officials are estimating those numbers can be up to 2000 people.&#8221; <\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The International Organisation for Migration [IOM] has been helping families to recover from the flash flooding of the past few weeks. Matthew Graydon, from the IOM, said: &#8220;This is a relatively remote area but the scale of this landslide is devastating. Our team has just returned and [according to initial assessments] as many as 2,700 people have died.&#8221;<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Afghan President Hamid Karzai released a statement saying he was deeply saddened by the situation and has ordered the Disaster Management Authority to deal with the situation and deliver aid. <\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Difficult to reach<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Aid is on its way, but the remote village is difficult to reach and the heavy machinery needed to dig those trapped is not easily transported.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Rescue crews are working but do not have enough equipment, Governor Adeep said, appealing for more shovels to dig people out. &#8220;It&#8217;s physically impossible right now. We don&#8217;t have enough shovels, we need more machinery.&#8221;<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Badakhshan provincial police chief, Major General Faziluddin Hayar, said rescuers pulled seven survivors and three bodies from the mounds of mud and earth but held out little hope that more survivors would be found.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8220;Now we can only help the displaced people. Those trapped under the landslide and who have lost lives, it is impossible to do anything for them,&#8221; Hayar said.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The Afghan army has been deployed to the area to help with rescue efforts and local authorities have evacuated nearby villages over concerns of more landslides within the area.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Badakshan province, nestled in the Hindu Kush and Pamir mountain ranges and bordering China, is one of the most remote in the country.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The province normally has many landslides, but they generally occur in remote areas and produce no casualties, said Mohammad Usman Abu Zar from the Meteorology Department of Badakhshan province.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Source:<em><strong> Al Jazeera <\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least 500 people are feared dead and up to 2000 others missing after a landslide buried a village in northern Afghanistan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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