Families buried, livelihoods lost as Afghan storm toll hits 47
Some 350 people were injured and 400 houses razed as rain and hail lashed eastern Nangarhar on Monday evening, according to the provincial disaster management authority. Charbagh Safa -- a village outside the provincial capital Jalalabad -- was in ruin by daybreak on Tuesday, a landscape of sucking mud where more than half the houses were gone. The home of Sajidullah had been packed with relatives eager to meet his brother's newborn baby when the deluge collapsed the building -- killing the new father alongside ten others. Читать дальше...