JALALABAD (Pajhwok): Sixty people have been killed and hundreds other missing due to heavy snowfall and avalanche in eastern Nuristan province, the governor said on Monday.
Hafiz Abdul Qayum told Pajhwok Afghan News an avalanche buried in entire Asfa Tol village in the Barg-i-Matal district yesterday, so far 53 bodies and 22 injured people had been retrieved from under the snow.
He said some 500 people lived in the village, and only 53 bodies and 22 injured had been recovered and the rest remained missing as yet . . .
