Accidents and disaster stories happening in Afghanistan
At least 35 people have been killed and around 30 others injured after two buses collided on a highway linking Syria’s capital Damascus with the eastern province of Deir el-Zour on Saturday, media reports said.
One person has been killed and at least 16 others injured after a car drove into a crowd at an LGBTQ Pride parade in Berlin, Germany, on Saturday night, police said.
Afghanistan’s National Disaster Preparedness Authority (ANDPA) says that floods over the past 24 hours have killed nine people, injured one and caused widespread destruction across nine provinces, damaging hundreds of homes and thousands of jeribs of agricultural land.…
Recent flash floods caused extensive damage to agricultural land, homes and public infrastructure in Panjshir’s Rukha and Dara districts, although no casualties were reported, local officials said on Friday. Saifuddin Laton, spokesman for the Panjshir governor, told Pajhwok…
Government officials say key roads in the provinces of Paktia, Panjshir and Parwan, which were closed following heavy rainfall and flash floods, have been reopened to traffic. The Ministry of Public Works announced on Friday that the Gardez–Khost…
he death toll from recent flash floods in eastern Nuristan province has risen to 24, including the provincial mayor and a battalion commander, while 85 others have been injured, an official said on Thursday.
Five Thai paramilitary soldiers have been killed and six civilians wounded after armed attackers targeted a security checkpoint in the country's insurgency-hit south, the army said. The attack took place on Wednesday evening at the Buketa Sami checkpoint…
At least 20 people were killed after armed gang members attacked several villages in Nigeria's northwestern Zamfara State, AFP reported on Wednesday, citing a local official.
The Ministry of Transport and Civil Aviation has warned of possible heavy rainfall, thunderstorms and flash floods in 10 provinces of the country.
At least 23 people have lost their lives, 80 others injured and around 100 remain missing after flash floods swept through eastern Nuristan province, the National Disaster Management and Preparedness Authority (NDMPA) said on Tuesday.
At least 20 people were killed, more than 80 injured and over 100 others remain missing after flash floods swept through Parun, the capital of eastern Nuristan province, on Monday, the National Disaster Preparedness Authority said. In a…
Two people were killed and three others injured in a traffic accident on the Khost–Gardez highway in southeastern Khost province. Tahir Ahrar, spokesperson for the Khost Police, said the accident occurred at around 5am today in the…
Eight people, including a woman, have been injured in two separate traffic accidents in western Badghis province, an official said on Sunday. Police spokesman Sediqullah Sediqi told Pajhwok Afghan News the first accident took place when two motorcycles…
The Ministry of Transport and Civil Aviation on Saturday warned of the possibility of rainfall, thunderstorms and sudden flash floods in five provinces of the country.
One man was killed and another injured after a vehicle overturned on the Shiberghan-Mazar-i-Sharif highway in northern Jawzjan province on Wednesday, an official said. Police spokesman Qari Abdul Sattar Halimi told Pajhwok Afghan News the accident occurred in…
At least 51 people have died and more than one million others have been affected by heavy rainfall that triggered widespread flooding and landslides across Bangladesh in recent days, media reports said.
At least 27 people were killed and eight others critically injured after a fire ripped through a bar in Bangkok, Thailand, on Monday, media reports said.
One individual was killed and 30 others injured in a traffic accident on Kabul–Kandahar highway in the Gilan district of southern Ghazni province on Sunday. Officials say that following the overturning of a on the, one person…
Iran has claimed to have launched attacks targeting Bahrain, Kuwait, Jordan and Qatar, while the United Arab Emirates said it intercepted Iranian missiles and drone threats amid a sharp escalation in regional tensions.
Six people were killed and eight others injured in a traffic accident in Pachiragam district of eastern Nangarhar province on Saturday.
At least 15 people have been killed in landslides in the Philippines as Typhoon Bavi continues to threaten parts of the region, media reports said on Saturday.
At least five people were killed and 16 others injured in a traffic accident on the Kandahar–Herat Highway in southern Helmand province on Friday. The accident occurred in the Shorab area of Washir district when a passenger bus…
The death toll from last week's twin earthquakes in Venezuela has climbed to more than 3,500, while nearly 18,000 people remain homeless and health officials warn of a growing risk of disease outbreaks among survivors.
At least 11 people have been killed and 56 others injured following a Russian missile and drone attack on Ukraine’s capital, Kyiv, media reports said.
