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500 Dead In Afghan Landslide

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500 Dead In Afghan Landslide

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06:21 3 May 2014


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Afghan officials have lowered the confirmed death toll following a deadly landslide.

Around 500 lives are believed to have been lost in the remote Badakhshan province updating earlier information that put the toll at over two-thousand.

There are now concerns the hillside above the site of the disaster may cave in again, threatening the thousands who've been left homeless.

Charity, Unicef Ireland, has aid workers on the ground - its Executive Director is Peter Power:


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