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Stays of homes broken by the flood are pictured in Firozkoh, the capital of Ghor province, Afghanistan, Could 18, 2024. REUTERS/Stringer
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Extra heavy rains in Afghanistan have prompted flash floods, elevating the dying toll within the nation’s north to 84, after weeks of devastating floods that had already left a whole bunch lifeless and lacking, a Taliban spokesman mentioned on Sunday.
The brand new spherical of heavy rains and flooding hit 4 districts in Faryab province on Saturday evening, leaving 66 lifeless, 5 injured and eight lacking. One other 18 folks died in floods on Friday, mentioned Esmatullah Moradi, spokesman for the provincial governor in Faryab.
Moradi mentioned about 1,500 properties had been partially or fully destroyed, whereas a whole bunch of hectares of farmland had been washed away and greater than 300 animals had been killed.
Afghanistan has witnessed unusually heavy seasonal rains.
Within the hard-hit western province of Ghor, fifty folks had been killed by Friday’s floods, in response to Abdul Wahid Hamas, spokesman for the provincial governor.
In response to the UN Meals Company, Ghor was hardest hit by the floods. The World Meals Program mentioned this final week exceptionally heavy rainfall killed in Afghanistan greater than 300 folks and destroyed hundreds of properties, primarily within the northern province of Baghlan.
The survivors haven’t any residence, no land and no supply of livelihood, the WFP mentioned, including that the majority of Baghlan was inaccessible to vehicles.
The most recent catastrophe adopted a devastating catastrophe floods killing no less than 70 folks in April. The waters additionally destroyed about 2,000 properties, three mosques and 4 colleges in western Farah and Herat, and the southern provinces of Zabul and Kandahar.
Heavy rains prompted flash floods in northern Afghanistan, killing no less than 84 folks
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