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KABUL: At least 20 people have been killed and more than 100 remain missing in flooding that hit Afghanistan’s Nuristan province on Monday, officials said.
Only mud remained where riverside shops previously stood in Parun, the provincial capital where residents were searching for their mayor among others.
Twenty bodies have been recovered so far, while more than 80 were injured, Afghanistan’s disaster agency ANDMA said.
Those casualties were reported in Parun and other parts of Nuristan, which borders Pakistan, the agency reported. Government employees including the mayor were among the missing in the town, the governor’s office said.
