*Flood kills at least 12*

 From correspondents in Mazar-i-Sharif, Afghanistan

May 06, 2007 11:17pm
Article from: Reuters

FLOODS killed at least 12 people in Afghanistan's Samangan province,
raising the death toll from flooding in the mountainous north of the
country to 36 in the past week.

Dozens of houses were destroyed when the Samangan River burst its banks
on Saturday and government help was needed to prevent further flooding,
provincial governor Abdul Haq Shafaq said.

Further east in remote Badakhshan province, 23 Afghanis and a Czech
soldier serving with NATO were killed on Thursday in flooding and
landslides.

A cold and snowy winter means Afghanistan is having a very heavy snow
melt this spring, with floods and slips killing around 100 people since
the beginning of March.

The Red Cross says more than 3000 homes have been destroyed.