"Due to floods in the Panjshir valley which caused a mountain landslide, 30 people have been killed," Kabul television said, adding that 400 cattle also perished.

Citing the official Bakhtar news agency, it said so far 25 bodies had been recovered and five were still missing.

The report did not say when the disaster occurred or give its exact location in the valley, whose entrance is 80 kilometres (50 miles) north of Kabul.

No further details were immediately available.

Last month three children were killed and 10 adults injured by landslides triggered by heavy rain that devastated their remote village in the northern province of Badakhshan, which borders the watershed at the northern end of the Panjshir.

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