KABUL (Pajhwok): More than 140 people lost their lives and 242 others sustained wounds in recent floods that destroyed and damaged around 27,000 residential homes during the past one month, an official said Tuesday.
Najib Aqa Fahim, State Minister for Natural Disaster Management, told a conference in Kabul that most of flood related casualties and damages happened in northern parts of the country.
He was addressing the conference entitled "The 5th National Water Conference - Water Resources Development and . . .
