The death toll in incidents related to the torrential rains that have hit Afghanistan since last Friday increased to 50 and the injured to 36, an official from the Taliban government reported this Tuesday (04/16/2024).
“According to reports from the relevant ministries since Friday, 50 people have died and another 36 have been injured due to heavy rains, flash floods and house collapses,” the spokesperson for the Ministry of Disaster Management, Janan Sayeq, informed EFE. .
The intense rainfall, affecting 15 of the 34 Afghan provinces, caused the total and partial destruction of 706 homes and more than 1,600 homes were damaged due to floods or landslides, Sayeq added.
Situation will persist
The Meteorological Department of the Afghan Ministry of Transport and Aviation estimated in its latest report that these intense rains and flash floods in different provinces of Afghanistan will persist in the coming days.
Heavy rains often cause sudden flooding and landslides in the most mountainous areas of Afghanistan, due among other reasons to the poor infrastructure after decades of armed conflict and the fragile adobe buildings in which a large part of the population resides.
Afghanistan is one of the countries in the world most affected by climate change and the least prepared to adapt to it, according to a report by the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA).
To the interruption of much of the international aid and the freezing of the country’s funds since the Taliban took power in Kabul in August 2021, is added the lack of international recognition while the fundamentalists carry out highly criticized measures, such as increasing restrictions on Afghan women or the return of public executions.
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