Disasters with highest death tolls - Khait landslide

Time: Sunday Jul 10, 1949

Place: Tajikistan

Details: The Khait or Hoit landslide occurred on July 10, 1949 in the Hoit district in the Gharm Oblast in the Tajikistan, then part of the Soviet Union. The landslide was triggered by the 1949 Khait earthquake and buried 33 villages and has by some estimates killed 28,000 people.

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