50 killed in flooding and severe rain in central Afghanistan, according to an official

According to an official on Saturday, at least 50 people have died in central Afghanistan as a result of recent severe rain and flooding.

The head of the central Ghor province’s communications department, Mawlawi Abdul Hai Zaeem, told Reuters that no information was available regarding the number of injuries sustained during the rainstorm that started on Friday and closed off several important routes to the region.

Zaeem continued, saying that in Feroz-Koh, the provincial capital, 2,000 houses had been totally demolished, 4,000 had sustained partial damage, and over 2,000 stores were submerged under water.

Authorities claimed on Sunday that 315 people were killed and another 1,600 injured in flash floods that ravaged villages in northern Afghanistan last week due to heavy rainfall.

The defense ministry of Afghanistan reported that one person was killed and twelve others were injured after an Afghan air force chopper crashed on Wednesday owing to “technical issues” while trying to retrieve the bodies of persons who had fallen into a river in the province of Ghor.

Afghanistan is one of the nations most vulnerable to climate change, according to the UN, and it is prone to natural calamities.

It has struggled with a lack of aid since the Taliban gained power and Western forces left the nation in 2021, as development aid, which was the main source of funding for the administration, was drastically reduced.

The deficit has gotten worse in the years that have followed as foreign countries struggle with conflicting global issues and mounting criticism of the Taliban’s restrictions on Afghan women.