Floods kill 23 Afghans, NATO soldier

[Eugene]

Source: Reuters

Floods kill 23 Afghans, NATO soldier
Fri May 4, 2007 5:06 PM IST

FAIZABAD, Afghanistan (Reuters) - Floods triggered by heavy rain
killed 23 Afghans and a NATO soldier, and destroyed scores of houses
in Afghanistan's northeastern province of Badakhshan, officials said
on Friday.

Authorities were searching for some missing people after the flooding,
which hit on Thursday night in an area of the impoverished and
mountainous province near the border with Tajikistan, China and
Pakistan, the provincial governor said.

"The people are in a very bad state," Munshi Abdul Majid said.

A soldier with the NATO-led forces died in another area of the
province when his car was washed away by the floods, an Afghan
aid worker said in Faizabad, the provincial capital of Badakhshan.

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