Accidents & Disasters

Rain-induced flash flooding washed away dozens of household animals, farmland, irrigation canals and a small hydropower dam in Juram district of northeastern Badakhshan province, officials said on Sunday.

KABUL (Pajhwok): Unleashed by heavy rains, flash floods destroyed crops on hundreds of acres of land in Daimardad district of central Maidan Wardak province on

Seven people were killed and five others injured in two separate traffic accidents in northern Baghlan province on Saturday, police said.

KABUL (Pajhwok): The Ministry of Transport and Civil Aviation (MoTCA) has predicated heavy rains, windstorms and flash flooding in 22 provinces of the country. MoTCA

Five people were injured in a traffic accident in northern Jawzjan province on Friday, an official said.

The Ministry of Transport and Civil Aviation (MoTCA) has predicated heavy rains, windstorms and flash floods in eight provinces of the country.

FEROZKOH (Pajhwok): A rickshaw fell into a river in Dawlatabad district of western Ghor province, killing the driver, a police official said on Saturday. Police

Four children were killed and a 19-year-old boy injured when an old mortar shell they were playing with exploded in central Logar province, police said on Saturday.

At least four people have been killed and 15 others wounded in four separate traffic accidents in central Kapisa and southern Ghazni provinces, local officials said on Saturday.

Two people have been killed and seven others injured in a traffic accident in central Sar-i-Pul province, an official said on Friday.

At least three people have been killed and one wounded as a result of a traffic accident in northern Samangan province, an official said on Thursday.

MAIMANA (Pajhwok): Three people, including a toddler, have been killed and two others injured in two separate accidents involving motorcycles in northern Faryab province, an