( CNN ) -- White tents line the sides of the valley where the landslide struck . Some villagers weep , others pray . The remnants of their shattered community lies buried below , submerged under as much as 60 meters of mud . In the space of one devastating week , natural disasters killed more people in Afghanistan than they did all last year . At the heart of the destruction was the double landslide that engulfed a village in a remote northeastern province on Friday , killing more than 2,000 people . A mass of rock and mud that came crashing down in the village of Abi Barak , in Badakhshan Province . `` The scale of this landslide is absolutely devastating , with an entire village practically wiped away , '' said Richard Danziger , the chief of mission for the International Organization for Migration ( IOM ) in Afghanistan . `` Hundreds of families have lost everything and are in immense need of assistance . '' Over the weekend , authorities gave up hope of finding anybody alive . They suspended rescue operations , and declared the site a mass graveyard . Double blow . The first landslide on Friday swallowed at least 300 homes . When residents from a nearby village rushed to the scene to help dig people out , the second landslide struck , sweeping away many of the rescuers . Exact figures are difficult to come by . But IOM staff on the ground said the double landslide killed as many as 2,700 people and affected 14,000 others . One woman lost all seven members of her family , said IOM spokesman Matt Graydon , who visited the area Sunday . The disaster wiped out acres of farmland and cut off local access to drinking water , making clean water one of the critical priorities for aid workers on the ground . Relief agencies are struggling to get vital supplies to the area , but it 's a challenge . Badakhshan is a remote , mountainous region of Afghanistan . The location , said Danzinger , makes it extremely challenging to transport heavy equipment and other supplies into the area . A day of mourning . Sunday was declared a national day of mourning for victims of the disaster . TV and radio stations suspended the broadcast of entertainment programming out of respect to the victims . In a statement , President Hamid Karzai expressed his deep sadness by the loss of life and property caused by landslide . He also promised that a high-ranking government delegation would travel to the affected area . The landslide followed days of flash floods across nine northern Afghan provinces that killed more than 160 people , displaced 16,000 others and affected a further 50,000 , according to a bulletin from the International Federation of the Red Cross . `` There have now been more Afghans killed through natural disasters in the past seven days than all of 2013 , '' said Mark Bowden , U.N. Humanitarian coordinator in Afghanistan . Afghanistan mourns landslide victims .
The death toll from a double landslide may be as high as 2,700 , a government agency says . Authorities have declared the site a national graveyard . More Afghans died in natural disasters in one year than in the year of 2013 , the U.N. says . Relief agencies are racing to reach the survivors , who lack access to clean water .