As many as 100 people are feared dead in an earthquake and landslide that buried more than 20 houses in northern Afghanistan today, officials said.

Heavy rain has sent flood water tearing through villages in north-east Afghanistan, killing at least 10 people and destroying hundreds of homes, police said today.

A member of the Afghan parliament was mistakenly killed in an early morning shootout between his bodyguards and police officers, officials said today.

A warlord’s secret weapons cache exploded in a remote Afghan village today, flattening nearby houses and a mosque and killing at least 28 people in what appeared to be the deadliest accident of its kind since the fall of the Taliban.