Remains of houses damaged by floods are photographed in Firozko, the capital of Ghor Province, Afghanistan, on May 18, 2024.
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More heavy rains in Afghanistan triggered flash floods, raising the death toll to 84 in the country’s north, a Taliban spokesman said on Sunday, after weeks of devastating flash floods that left hundreds dead and missing.
A new round of heavy rains and floods hit four districts in Faryab province on Saturday night, leaving 66 people dead, five injured and eight missing. Elsmatullah Moradi, spokesman for the governor of Faryab province, said 18 more people died in floods on Friday.
Moradi said about 1,500 houses were completely or partially destroyed, hundreds of hectares of farmland were washed away and more than 300 animals were killed.
Afghanistan has been witnessing unusually heavy seasonal rainfall.
In the worst-hit western province of Ghor, Friday’s flooding killed 50 people, according to Abdul Wahid Hamas, the provincial governor’s spokesman.
The U.N. food agency said Ghor was the area worst affected by the floods.Last week, the World Food Program said Heavy rain Killed in Afghanistan more than 300 people and destroyed thousands of homes, mostly in the northern province of Baghlan.
The survivors have no homes, no land and no source of livelihood, the WFP said, adding that much of Baghlan is inaccessible to trucks.
Recent disasters follow devastating disasters flood At least 70 people died in April. Flooding also destroyed about 2,000 houses, three mosques and four schools in western Farah and western Herat provinces, and in southern Zabul and Kandahar provinces.
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