Accidents & Disasters

A team of climbers, drumming up support for flood-affected people, has scaled the highest peak of Siahkoh mountain in western Ghor province.

Three people have been killed and four others injured in a wall-collapse incident in Mehtarlam, the capital of eastern Laghman province.

Former presidential spokesman Dawa Khan Menapal’s brother has been killed in a traffic accident in the Shahjoi district of southern Zabul province.

At least 21 people have been killed, 19 others wounded, and 840 houses damaged due to flash floods in seven provinces of the country in the last two days, says the State Ministry for Natural Disasters Management.

Three people have been killed and 15 others injured as a result of traffic accident on Kabul-Kandahar highway in southern Zabul province, police official said on Sunday.

At least 10 members of a family have been killed in rain-induced floods in eastern Badakhshan province, officials said on Sunday.

KABUL (Pajhwok): The Ministry of Transport and Civil Aviation (MoTCA) has predicted more rainfall and subsequent flooding in five provinces on Saturday. MoTCA wrote on

A 13-year-old boy has drowned in a river while swimming in Bala Morghab district of western Badghis province, police official said on Saturday.

Besides human and financial losses in different parts of the country, the floods have also increased risk of collapsing of the historic Jam Minaret in western Ghor province, an official said Thursday.

Flash floods killed at least 15 people and also caused financial losses in northwestern Faryab, northern Sar-i-Pul and Baghlan provinces, officials said on Thursday.

At least 15 houses have been completely destroyed and 26 others being threatened after debris flow came down a mountain in northeastern Badakhshan province.

The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) said on Wednesday it needed $14.5 million to provide emergency food and nutrition assistance for over 80,000 flood-affected people in Afghanistan.