KABUL – Sudden floods created by torrential rains have caused at least 29 deaths in Afghanistan in the past 24 hours, according to reports from the Taliban government’s disaster management ministry in Kabul, which also speaks of hundreds of missing people.
The most affected province is that of Parwan, with 20 dead and a hundred missing and 50 injured, but also those of Kapisa and Nangarhar, said the spokesman of the ministry, Mohammad Naseeb Haqqani. “Crops, dozens of houses and streets have been destroyed”, he added, specifying that the confirmed deaths in the province of Kapisa are 5 and 4 in that of Nangarhar. Rescuers, Haqqani said, are digging in the mud in various locations.
Source: Ansa
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