At least 22 dead and 32 injured in the past two days due to storms, floods and landslides in some parts of Afghanistan. This was announced on Monday by the local authority responsible for disaster management, which at the same time warned of the continuing risk due to adverse weather. TASR informs about it according to a Reuters report.
- Storms, floods and landslides in Afghanistan have killed at least twenty-two people.
- At least thirty-two people were injured in natural disasters in Afghanistan.
- Heavy rains in mountainous and rural areas cause flash floods and collapse of houses.
- Authorities report damage to two hundred and forty-one homes in the thirteen affected provinces of Afghanistan.
- Afghanistan is among the countries most threatened by climate change with declining international aid.
Most of the victims came from the central and eastern provinces, where heavy rains caused flash floods and collapsed houses in mountainous and rural areas. Conditions in some parts of the country remain unstable and the threat of more rain and flooding remains, according to officials.
“In the last two days, 22 people were killed, 32 were injured and 241 houses were damaged due to floods and other natural disasters in 13 provinces,” an official from the disaster management office told Reuters.
Afghanistan is often hit by natural disasters and the United Nations (UN) ranks it among the countries most at risk of climate change. International aid was significantly reduced after the Taliban took power in 2021. A UN report from last November states that earthquakes, floods and droughts in just eleven months of last year destroyed approximately 8,000 houses in Afghanistan and overburdened public services “beyond their limits”.
