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| Rescuers dig out victims of landslide. (Screen capture from YouTube video) |
More than 2,000 people were trapped and hundreds feared dead after a landslide smashed into a village in a remote mountainous area of Afghanistan on Friday, local officials said, prompting a massive search and rescue effort.
The landslide crashed into the northeastern village in Argo district at around 11 a.m. as villagers were trying to recover their belongings and livestock after a smaller landslip had hit the area a few hours earlier.
"There were more than 1,000 families living in that village. A total of 2,100 people - men, women and children - are trapped," Naweed Forotan, a spokesman for the Badakhshan governor, told Reuters.
"As the part of the mountain which collapsed is so big, we don't believe anyone would survive. The government and locals from surrounding villagers are helping with the rescue, and so far they have recovered more than a hundred bodies."
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