Flood Kills 10 Family Members.
Ten members of a family
were killed overnight in a village in the capital of Afghanistan’s Badakhshan
province due to heavy rainfall and flooding.
The head of the
information and culture department Zabihullah Amiri said in a statement that,
rescue teams are searching for the remaining victims after four bodies were
recovered.
Flooding has deepened
Afghanistan’s already dire humanitarian crisis, adding to the death toll caused
by multiple natural disasters in recent years.
The World Food
Programme, said in a statement that, floods in the past few weeks have affected
at least 80,000 people in the country, while, Afghan authorities reported more
than 400 deaths due to flash floods across different provinces, and Baghlan province in the north was hit the
hardest.
Extreme weather events
such as flash floods and droughts are on the increase in Afghanistan, and the
country remains among the world’s top 10 climate-impacted nations despite
having a negligible carbon footprint.
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