Landslides in Afghanistan bury thousands alive

Hasn't this country suffered enough?!  



From CBCNews:
....Afghan landslide rescue now focuses on displaced.
Death toll varies from few hundred to thousands, rescuers give up on finding survivors.
Afghan rescuers and volunteers armed with shovels and little more than their bare hands dug through the mud Saturday after a massive landslide swept through a village the day before, turning it into an earthen tomb holding hundreds of bodies, officials said.
The government and aid groups rushed to bring food, water and shelter to the survivors as the government tried to ascertain just how many people were killed in the latest natural disaster to hit a country already reeling from nearly three decades of war.
Figures on the number of people killed and missing in the disaster Friday varied from 255 to 2,700. Fears of a new landslide complicated rescue efforts, as homes and residents sat buried under metres of mud......