DUSHANBE, May 5, 2014, Asia-Plus -- A convoy of trucks carrying 200 tons of humanitarian aid for disaster-affected in areas in Afghan Badakhshan departed from Dushanbe yesterday, according to the Committee on Emergency Situations and Civil Defense (CES).

An official source at a CES says the assistance includes wheat flour, sugar, vegetable oil, macaroni, rice, drinking water and kitchen utensils. 

The side of the mountain above the village of Ab Barik in Afghan Badakhshan Province collapsed at around 11 a.m. on May 2 as people were trying to recover belongings and livestock after a smaller landslip hit a few hours earlier.

Hundreds of homes were destroyed in the landslides that were triggered by torrential rain.

Afghan officials gave up hope on Saturday of finding any survivors from a landslide in the remote northeast, putting the death toll at more than 2,100, as the aid effort focused on the more than 4,000 people displaced.

Reuters cited Naweed Forotan, a spokesman for the Badakhshan provincial governor, as saying that more than 2,100 people from 300 families are all dead.

According to BBC, Afghan officials formally ended the search for survivors on Saturday.  Mechanical diggers reportedly left Ab Barik village without being used because the site was inaccessible.

The United Nations mission in Afghanistan said the focus was on the more than 4,000 people displaced, either directly as a result of Friday''s landslide or as a precautionary measure from villages assessed to be at risk.

The Afghan government has declared a day of national mourning for people killed in the landslides.

Mountainous Badakhshan, which borders Tajikistan, China and Pakistan, is one of the poorest regions in Afghanistan.