Several Killed As Bad Weather Strikes Afghanistan, Central Asia

Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty

Afghanistan has been blanketed in snow in recent days.

By RFE/RL

February 05, 2014

At least 19 people have been killed after heavy snow blanketed parts of Afghanistan and neighboring Central Asian states.
The deputy governor of Afghanistan's northwestern province of Jowzjan, Abdul Rahman Mahmoudi, said on February 5 that heavy snow fell from January 31 to late on February 4 and it has been blamed for the deaths of 14 local residents, including five children.
In Tashkent, the capital of neighboring Uzbekistan, snow caused a plane to slip off a runway on February 5. No one was hurt in the incident.
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