KABUL: At the very least 60 individuals have been killed by heavy rain and snow in Afghanistan over the previous three weeks, the government‘s catastrophe ministry stated Wednesday.
Afghanistan has been parched by an unusually dry winter, however the finish of the season is generally a time when lethal unhealthy climate — significantly floods — batter communities.
“Due to the snow and rains sadly sixty compatriots have been martyred and 23 individuals injured” since February 20, ministry spokesman Janan Sayeq stated in a video assertion.
About 1,645 homes have been completely or partially ruined and almost 178,000 livestock killed, he added.
Because the collapse of the US-backed authorities and the return of the Taliban, overseas assist to Afghanistan has shrunk dramatically, undermining the already impoverished nation’s means to reply to disasters.
Western Herat province — nonetheless reeling from a succession of devastating earthquakes in October — has been hit by flash floods after heavy rain since Monday night.
5 members of the identical household have been killed Tuesday when the roof of their residence collapsed within the provincial capital of Herat metropolis, catastrophe administration official Abdul Zaher Noorzai informed reporters.
Provisional knowledge confirmed about 250 homes had been destroyed and huge tracts of farmland flooded, he added, saying assist ought to start arriving on Thursday.
Like many different homes within the space, the one which caved-in on the 5 family members had been broken in a collection of earthquakes 5 months in the past, native imam Naqibullah informed AFP.
The trio of quakes — beginning on October 7 — killed almost 1,500 and left some 30,000 houses completely or partially destroyed, in response to the United Nations.
Afghanistan has been parched by an unusually dry winter, however the finish of the season is generally a time when lethal unhealthy climate — significantly floods — batter communities.
“Due to the snow and rains sadly sixty compatriots have been martyred and 23 individuals injured” since February 20, ministry spokesman Janan Sayeq stated in a video assertion.
About 1,645 homes have been completely or partially ruined and almost 178,000 livestock killed, he added.
Because the collapse of the US-backed authorities and the return of the Taliban, overseas assist to Afghanistan has shrunk dramatically, undermining the already impoverished nation’s means to reply to disasters.
Western Herat province — nonetheless reeling from a succession of devastating earthquakes in October — has been hit by flash floods after heavy rain since Monday night.
5 members of the identical household have been killed Tuesday when the roof of their residence collapsed within the provincial capital of Herat metropolis, catastrophe administration official Abdul Zaher Noorzai informed reporters.
Provisional knowledge confirmed about 250 homes had been destroyed and huge tracts of farmland flooded, he added, saying assist ought to start arriving on Thursday.
Like many different homes within the space, the one which caved-in on the 5 family members had been broken in a collection of earthquakes 5 months in the past, native imam Naqibullah informed AFP.
The trio of quakes — beginning on October 7 — killed almost 1,500 and left some 30,000 houses completely or partially destroyed, in response to the United Nations.
