After three days of heavy torrential rains, they have caused at least 33 deaths and 27 injuries in Afghanistan, according to Taliban authorities this Sunday.
The intense rainfall affects a good part of the Asian country, according to the spokesperson for the Department of Disaster Management, Janan Sayeq, who indicated that some 600 homes were totally or partially destroyed.
These fatalities add to the nearly 60 deaths caused by a series of flash floods and heavy snowfalls that Afghanistan experienced at the end of February.
Heavy rains usually cause sudden floods and landslides in the most mountainous areas of the country, due among other reasons to the poor infrastructure after decades of armed conflict and the fragile adobe buildings in which a good part of the population resides.
In addition, Afghanistan is one of the countries most affected by climate change and the least prepared to adapt to it, according to a report by the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA).
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