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About 150 Feared Dead or Missing After Afghan Quake
Monday, March 4, 2002
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- Reuters
About 50 people were feared dead and 100 were missing in two remote northern Afghan villages on Monday after a powerful earthquake sparked landslides, a spokesman for the U.N. World Food Programme said.
Children look through a gap where a wall collapsed when the tremor hit Kabul.
Image Credit: Jim Hollander -- Reuters.
"Two villages located between two mountains were badly affected by a serious landslide," WFP spokesman Khaled Mansour told Reuters.
"According to local authorities, they are claiming about 50 people were killed and 100 others missing under the rubble."
The villages are located in the Takhdi Rustum area of Samangan province.
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