Afghanistan avalanches kill 150 in Salang Pass

[muriel_volestrangler]

Source: BBC

At least 150 people have been killed in a series of avalanches that have blocked a mountain pass north of Kabul, Afghan officials say.

Rescuers are trying to reach hundreds more people who are trapped in their vehicles in the Salang Pass.

Some 2,500 people have been rescued so far, but scores more are feared buried following several days of heavy snow.
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Interior Ministry spokesman Zemeri Bashary told the AP news agency rescuers had recovered 157 bodies from the road, which connects the Afghan capital with the north, over the past two days.

Read more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/8506033.stm

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As if they don't have enough troubles ...

[SpiralHawk]

1. I think the NYT had a story on this pass just a few days ago

It is like a theater macabre -- with cars and trucks whizzing into the cliff or out into space every day...the road through the pass is just godawful, as if it had been designed and built by republicons or something.

[ensho]

2. I wonder if this is the highest number of people killed in a snow

avalance? that's a lot of people!

[dipsydoodle]

3. and I trust the avalanches

were not started maliciously. :shrug:

[proteus_lives]

4. Wow!

:tinfoilhat: