Accidents and disaster stories happening in Afghanistan
Following the destruction and blockage of transportation routes in several districts of western Ghor and Badghis provinces due to recent floods, residents are calling for the reopening and reconstruction of these roads. Local officials say efforts are underway…
The Ministry of Water and Energy (MoWE) has forecast heavy rainfall and flash floods in some parts of the country.
Three people have been killed and three others injured in a traffic accident on the Kabul–Kandahar highway in southern Ghazni province on Monday, police said.
A man drowned to death after falling into a water pond in southern Ghazni province on Monday, an official said.
At least five members of a family have been killed and two others injured after a hill collapsed onto a house in western Badghis province.
At least five people, including one woman, have died and hundreds of homes have been destroyed after flash floods struck the western provinces of Badghis and Ghor, local officials said on Thursday. Baridad Saber, head of the Disaster…
Two women have died after a wall collapsed in Jaghatu district of central Maidan Wardak province, police said Thursday.
The Ministry of Transport and Civil Aviation (MoTCI) has forecast heavy rainfall, thunderstorms and flash floods in 23 provinces of the country.
At least four people have been killed in an avalanche in the Raghistan district of northeastern Badakhshan province, police said on Wednesday.
Three people have been killed and eight others wounded in two separate traffic accidents in southern Ghazni Province, police said on Wednesday.
The Meteorological Department of the Ministry of Transport and Aviation has forecast relatively heavy rainfall and possible flash floods in 11 provinces of the country.
Two Afghan citizens were killed and several others injured in a traffic accident in Balochistan, Pakistan, while reportedly attempting to migrate illegally to Iran. The Pakistani newspaper Dawn reported that the incident occurred on Thursday night on a…
The Ministry of Defense (MoD) says a child who fell into a deep well in Nad Ali district of Helmand province was rescued by the ministry’s technical team. According to a statement from the 215 Azm Corps, the…
The Meteorology Department of the Ministry of Transport and Civil Aviation has forecast rainfall and possible flash floods in 20 provinces of the country.
One person has been killed and five others injured after the roof of a house collapsed in eastern Laghman province.
The Ministry of Energy and Water (MoEW) has alerted of possible rainfall and flash floods in several provinces over the next two days.
Eight people have drowned in the river in western Farah province over the past two months, an official said on Wednesday.
At least 30 people have been killed in a stampede in northern Haiti, media reports said on Sunday.
Eight members of a family were killed and another injured after the roof of a house collapsed in central Parwan province, officials said on Saturday. In a statement, the governor’s office said the incident occurred when the roof…
One person has been killed and 15 others injured in a traffic accident in Pul-i-Alam, the capital of central Logar province. The spokesperson for the Logar Police, Mawlawi Ahmadullah Ans, told Pajhwok that the incident occurred on Thursday…
Local officials in western Farah province report that a fire at Sheikh Abu Nasr Farahi Port caused over nine million afghanis in financial losses.
A vehicle transporting returning refugees overturned in the Surkhrod district of eastern Nangarhar province on Wednesday night, leaving one person dead and 35 others injured, police said on Thursday.
A man has been killed and two others injured in a traffic accident in northern Jawzjan province, an official said on Wednesday.
At least 10 people have been killed and six others injured after the roofs of several houses collapsed in the capital and three districts of eastern Nangarhar province, an official said on Tuesday.
