Three people have died from mudslides after heavy rains caused flooding in the Central Asian state of Tajikistan, emergency services said on Friday. Two adolescents were killed Thursday night in mudslides in Farkhar, near the border with Afghanistan, and a 16-year-old girl died in the northern mountain village of Chingak, a spokeswoman for emergency services told AFP.
Heavy rains hit most of the poverty-stricken country late Thursday, flooding dozens of hectares of wheat and cotton fields, destroying three bridges and damaging many roads, the spokeswoman said. Last year 61 people were killed in Tajikistan following heavy rains and hundreds of homes destroyed.
