ISLAMABAD (AP) — Extra heavy rains in Afghanistan have precipitated flash floods, elevating the demise toll to 84 within the nation’s north following weeks of devastating torrents that had already left loads lifeless and lacking, a Taliban spokesman mentioned Sunday.
The brand new spherical of heavy rains and floods hit 4 districts in Faryab province Saturday night time, leaving 66 lifeless, 5 injured and 8 lacking. Any other 18 other folks had died in floods on Friday, mentioned Esmatullah Moradi, spokesman for the provincial governor in Faryab.
Moradi mentioned that round 1,500 properties have been both utterly or partly destroyed whilst loads of hectares (acres) of farmlands have been washed away and greater than 300 animals killed.
Afghanistan has been witnessing surprisingly heavy seasonal rains.
Within the hard-hit western province of Ghor, 50 other folks have been reported lifeless from Friday’s floods, in line with Abdul Wahid Hamas, spokesman for the provincial governor.
The U.N. meals company mentioned Ghor was once essentially the most suffering from the floods. Ultimate week, the International Meals Program mentioned the exceptionally heavy rains in Afghanistan had killed greater than 300 other folks and destroyed hundreds of homes, most commonly within the northern province of Baghlan.
Survivors were left and not using a house, no land, and no supply of livelihood, WFP mentioned, including that the majority of Baghlan was once inaccessible via vehicles.
The most recent crisis got here at the heels of devastating floods that killed a minimum of 70 other folks in April. The waters additionally destroyed about 2,000 houses, 3 mosques and 4 colleges in western Farah and Herat, and southern Zabul and Kandahar provinces.
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