KABUL (Pajhwok): Fierce rain-induced floods have killed 30 people in central Parwan province, officials and residents say.
More than 30 individuals were injured as flash floods swept through Shinwari and Sia Gard districts of the province.
Hundreds of houses were damaged by the flooding, said Information and Culture Director Shamsur Rahman Sidiqi.
A spokesman for the Ministry of State for Disaster Management put the death toll at 20 in Parwan. More than 50 others were injured, he said.
Mohammad Naseeb Haqqani told AFP: "Crops, dozens of homes and roads have been destroyed."
Five more people were killed by floods . . .
