阿富汗总统卡尔扎伊3日对受灾群众表示慰问，并宣布5月4日为国家哀悼日。
Rescuers in Afghanistan have given up hope of finding any moresurvivors in a double landslide that is feared to have killed morethan 2,500 people.
They have stopped digging through the earth and mud that swamped a whole village in theremote north-east province of Badakhshan on Friday.
Officials now say the site has become a mass grave for the village of Ab Barik.
Aid, including tents, food and water, has begun to arrive for the survivors.
They spent Friday night camped out in near freezing conditions on the open hillside.
The BBC's David Loyn, who has arrived at the scene, described it as desolate and distraught as thesurviving villagers try to settle in to their temporary new homes on the hillside.
He said heavy rain is believed to have triggered Friday's two landslides, the first of which buriedhundreds of homes and the second then killed rescuers who had arrived at the scene to help reachsurvivors.
