Accidents & Disasters

FAIZABAD (Pajhwok): Three people have been killed and 15 others injured in two separate traffic accidents in northeastern Badakhshan province . . .

Two people have been killed and three others injured as a result of an accident in northeastern Balkh province, the Traffic Department said on Thursday.

Flash floods have washed away crops on 350 acres of land in Kot district of eastern Nangarhar province, an official said on Wednesday.

At least 13 people were killed and 16 others wounded in natural disasters in eight provinces of the country in last 10 days, an official said on Wednesday.

Three people were killed and 13 others injured in a traffic accident in the Dara-i-Suf district of northern Samangan province on Tuesday, an official said.

At least eight people, including women and children, have been killed and four others wounded after a boat capsized in eastern Nangarhar province, an official said on Tuesday.

PUL-I-ALAM (Pajhwok): One person died and seven others were injured as a result of two traffic accidents in central Logar province, police said . .

A lightning strike in the Bala Murghab district of western Badghis province has resulted in the death of one man, a local official said on Monday.

At least 43 people have died as Hurricane Helene swept through the southeastern United States, the BBC reports.

Three people were killed, 20 others injured and at least 150 houses damaged as a result of heavy rain and flash floods in the Koz Kunar district of eastern Nangarhar province early on Friday, an official said.

Three individuals have been killed and six others injured in traffic accidents in central Maidan Wardak and southern Ghazni provinces.

A man has been killed and 19 other people have been wounded in three separate traffic accidents in central Parwan province, police said on Wednesday.