The fatal flash floods that struck multiple Afghan provinces over the weekend claimed at least 31 lives, according to authorities’ reports on Sunday.
74 people had been harmed, and at least 41 were still missing, according to Shafiullah Rahimi, a spokesman for the Taliban’s Ministry of Disaster Management, who talked to the media from Kabul.
Rahimi claims that in seven regions of Afghanistan, flash floods caused by heavy seasonal rains have destroyed 606 residential dwellings and hundreds of acres of agricultural land, either completely or in part.
Teams from the ministry, as well as teams from the defence and public welfare ministries, the Red Crescent, provincial officials, and other officials, arrived at the flood scenes and managed the rescue efforts, the official claimed.
In a statement made public on Sunday, the Taliban’s Ministry of State for Disaster Management asserted that since the year 2023 got underway, over 100,000 families in different provinces affected by natural disasters had gotten food and money aid.
According to the report, including the most recent recorded deaths from flash floods, at least 214 individuals have perished as a result of natural catastrophes in the previous four months.