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Stays of homes broken by the flood are pictured in Firozkoh, the capital of Ghor province, Afghanistan, Might 18, 2024. REUTERS/Stringer
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Flash floods attributable to heavy seasonal rains have killed at the very least 68 individuals in Afghanistan, Taliban officers stated on Saturday. The demise toll was primarily based on preliminary experiences.
Afghanistan has witnessed unusually heavy seasonal rains.
Fifty individuals are reported to have been killed within the hard-hit western province of Ghor, stated Abdul Wahid Hamas, spokesman for the provincial governor. He additionally stated the province has suffered vital monetary losses after hundreds of houses and properties have been broken and tons of of hectares of farmland destroyed following Friday’s floods, together with the capital Feroz Koh.
In the meantime, 18 individuals have been killed and two others injured within the northern province of Farayab on Friday, stated Esmatullah Moradi, the spokesman for the provincial governor. Harm to property and land was reported in 4 districts and greater than 300 animals have been killed, he added.
The UN meals company posted on social media platform WFP evaluation groups are on the bottom to deploy help, the submit stated.
The Taliban authorities’s chief spokesperson mourned “the lack of our fellow Afghans” in a submit on He additionally referred to as on “our keen donors” for help and humanitarian organizations to supply aid to the affected communities.
Final week, WFP stated exceptionally heavy rains in Afghanistan have killed greater than 300 individuals and destroyed hundreds of houses, particularly within the northern province of Baghlan, which bore the brunt of the floods on Might 10.
The survivors don’t have any house, no land and no supply of livelihood, the World Meals Group stated. Most of Baghlan is “inaccessible to vehicles,” the WFP stated, including that it’s resorting to no matter different it may well consider to ship meals to survivors.
The most recent catastrophe adopted devastating floods that killed at the very least 70 individuals in April. The waters additionally destroyed about 2,000 houses, three mosques and 4 faculties in western Farah and Herat, and the southern provinces of Zabul and Kandahar.
