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Flash Floods Kill More than 70 in Afghanistan

Ayesha Tanzeem

   ISLAMABAD - Flash floods killed more than 70 people and injured close
   to 100 in Parwan province, north of Kabul, Afghanistan, early Wednesday
   and the numbers may rise as more cases are reported, said officials
   monitoring the situation.

   In the provincial capital, Charikar, hundreds of homes have been
   destroyed and the search is on for people buried under rubble, said
   Ahmad Tameem Azimi, a spokesman for the Ministry of Disaster
   Management.

   Many of the injured were rushed to Parwan provincial hospital and some
   were in critical condition, according to Dr. Abdul Khalil Haidari, the
   head of the facility.

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