The death toll from a double landslide may be as high as 2,700 , a government agency says . Badakhshan is a remote , mountainous region of Afghanistan . 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 .
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 .