A mother and her six children have died in eastern Afghanistan after heavy rains collapsed their house while they were sleeping in it overnight. On Thursday, the local authorities informed about it, according to which they are the latest of dozens of victims of extreme weather in the country. TASR took over the report from the AP agency.
- Heavy rains in Afghanistan caused a house to collapse and the death of seven family members.
- The tragedy occurred in the city of Jalalabad during the night rains.
- The mother and her six children died, the father was injured and hospitalized.
- As a result of the extreme weather, at least 61 people have already died in the country.
- Afghanistan is prone to natural disasters due to poor infrastructure and climate change.
The tragedy occurred in the city of Jalalabad, which was plagued by rain from Monday evening to Wednesday morning. The rainfall damaged the house where the family lived, which then collapsed. confirmed a police spokesman in Nangarhar province. The bodies of the mother and her children – three boys and three girls aged between four and 15 – were pulled from the rubble by rescuers. The children’s father was injured in the accident and was taken to a local hospital.
Just on Saturday, the Afghan Disaster Management Authority announced that heavy snowfall and rain killed 61 and injured more than 100 people across the country. Hundreds of houses were completely or partially destroyed due to the rainfall.
The AP explains that Afghanistan is extremely vulnerable to extreme weather events. Snow and heavy rain often cause flash floods there, killing dozens of people. The consequences of such disasters in the Central Asian country are exacerbated by decades of conflict, along with poor infrastructure, a weak economy, deforestation and intensified climate change, the agency added.
