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Tajikistan flood death toll rises to 21, dozens missing: official

Flash floods kill 66 in Afghanistan
Herat, Afghanistan (AFP) May 8, 2010 - Flash floods have killed at least 66 people and destroyed hundreds of houses in Afghanistan, the government said Saturday. Hundreds of livestock have also been destroyed by the flooding, caused by torrential rain in northern and western Afghanistan, said the head of the National Disaster Management Authority for the region. "Twenty-three people have died in Badghis, 21 in Ghor and another 22 in Herat province," said Abdul Hameed Mubariz Hameedi, referring to the three worst-hit provinces. The Afghan government and the United Nations have sent relief teams to the affected areas, which are among the poorest in the country. Natural disasters are common in mountainous Afghanistan, where more than 200 people lost their lives in heavy avalanches earlier this year.
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 Dushanbe (AFP) May 8, 2010
 The death toll from flooding and mudslides that swamped homes in Tajikistan has risen to 21, including 10 children, with around 1,500 homes damaged, an emergency official said Saturday.

The deaths and destruction in the impoverished Central Asian state followed heavy downpours on Friday in the southeast of the mountainous country, emergency services spokesman Distmurod Zabirov told AFP.

Fourteen people died in flooding in the worst affected town of Kilyab, some 220 kilometres (130 miles) southeast of the capital Dushanbe, Zabirov said. Many of these deaths were reported on Friday.

The town's river rose by several metres (feet) after more heavy rain and "flowed around the city districts at night, destroying houses as people slept inside," Zabirov said.

A further seven died in neighbouring districts, Zabirov said.

"Around 48 people are listed as missing after the flood. The numbers could grow."

Mudslides strike every spring in the ex-Soviet state, more than 90 percent of which is covered by mountains, with 19 people killed earlier this year.


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