Death toll rises in Afghan floods

More than 80 bodies have been found two days after a devastating flash flood in Afghanistan as police and villagers scoured the rugged terrain for missing people.

Lieutenant Fazel Rahman, the police chief in the Guzirga i-Nur district of Baghlan province, said the death toll from Friday’s flash flooding had climbed to 81 from 54. He said 850 houses across several villages were destroyed and more than 1,000 were damaged by the heavy rain and flooding, leaving thousands of people in need of shelter, food, water and medicine.