Momonyoko wa ardhi waua zaidi ya watu 2100
Momonyoko wa ardhi waua zaidi ya watu 2100
- Thread starter kbm
- Start date
Bubu Msemaovyo
JF-Expert Member
- May 9, 2007
- 4,120
- 3,468
kbm
JF-Expert Member
- Oct 5, 2012
- 5,224
- 1,677
- Thread starter
- #3
... Afghanistan landslide:
Rescuers end search for
survivors
3 May 2014 Last updated at 16:52
Rescuers in Afghanistan have given
up hope of finding any more
survivors in a double landslide that
is feared to have killed more than
2,500 people.
They have stopped digging through
the earth and mud that swamped a
whole village in the remote north-
east province of Badakhshan on
Friday.
Officials now say the site has
become a mass grave for the village
of Ab Barik.
Aid, including tents, food and water,
has begun to arrive for the survivors.
They spent Friday night camped out
in near freezing conditions on the
open hillside.
The BBC's David Loyn, who has
arrived at the scene, described it as
desolate and distraught as the
surviving villagers try to settle in to
their temporary new homes on the
hillside.
He said heavy rain is believed to
have triggered Friday's two
landslides, the first of which buried
hundreds of homes and the second
then killed rescuers who had arrived
at the scene to help reach survivors.
'Prayers'
Attempts to dig through the thick
mud to find survivors continued into
Saturday, with people using shovels
and even their bare hands.
But the last of the diggers had given
up by later on in the day, realising
their efforts are futile, our
correspondent reports.
"We cannot continue the search and
rescue operation anymore, as the
houses are under metres of mud,"
provincial governor Shah Waliullah
Adeeb said.
"We will offer prayers for the victims
and make the area a mass grave."
The landslide buried around 370
homes, which officials say housed in
total some 2,500 people.
The UN says only 350 bodies have so
far been recovered.
KUNGUNI 2010
Member
- Apr 27, 2014
- 27
- 1
Polen sana kwayale yalio wapata