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March 6th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda The incident occurred late on Monday when a huge mass of snow slammed into the village in Shekay district of mountainous Badakhshan province.
“Thirty-seven bodies, including women and children, have been recovered from under the snow so far,” provincial spokesman Abdul Rauf Rasekh said.
Rasekh said rescue workers were desperately digging for survivors amid fears of a sharp rise in the death toll as dozens of villagers remain trapped under the avalanche, resulted by days of heavy snowfall followed by a rise in temperature.
Heavy snowfalls and avalanches kill scores of people in Afghanistan every year, but the number of mortalities has been larger than usual this winter, the harshest in 15 years.
The latest avalanche taking the total death toll to at least 80 in Badakhshan alone, Rasekh said.
In late February, 35 children died over two days in remote districts of the province after roads to districts were blocked by heavy snow.
Twenty-four children also died in refugee camps on the outskirts of Kabul, which home thousands of Afghan citizens displaced by war and Taliban-linked militancy in the south of the country.
MRS/JR
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