2,500 Dead After Afghanistan Landslide

Authorities have stopped search and rescue efforts in north east Afghanistan.

Friday a massive landslide buried much of Ab Barik, in Badakhshan province, after heavy rains.

Later in the day things were made worse when a second slide reburied everything, including hundreds of would be rescuers.

Officials believe that as many as twenty-five hundred people were killed between the two slides.
Due to the danger of a third slide, officials have called off any search.

They also state their doubts that there are survivors in the town, which was buried with twenty to three hundred feet of mud and dirt.