Many missing as rescuers search for survivors
(AP) - Flood waters ravaged a provincial capital in northern Afghanistan, killing at least 19 people and destroying hundreds of homes, officials said earlier today. About 60 other people were missing and rescuers were looking for them across Sar-e-Pul, the capital of a province with the same name, said the national disaster director in the area. Northern Afghanistan gets hit nearly every spring by flash flooding from heavy rains and snow melting off the mountains. "Most of these families have lost their houses—all their property, their livelihoods," he said. More»
