'They drowned together': Lives swept away by Afghanistan floods

Only Jawed, 38, and his nine-year-old son -- his eldest -- survived the flooding that carried away his wife and four other young children, some of the hundreds who died in Baghlan from the flooding that devastated the province Friday, according to the United Nations. At work when he heard of the surging waters, Jawed tried to race home but found the roads impassable. When he finally reached his house, he saw only the stoop remained. "There was nothing left. My whole house and life had been washed away," Jawed told AFP.