At least 294 people have been killed and 266 others wounded in recent flash floods in 14 provinces of the country during the last eleven days, the State Ministry for Natural Disasters Management said on Tuesday. Mullah Jan Saiq, spokesman for…
At least 18 people lost their lives and two others sustained injuries due to flash floods that inflicted heavy financial losses on people in northern Faryab province. Mufti Ismatullah Muradi, the governor’s spokesman, told Pajhwok Afghan News that…
At least 315 people have been killed, 1,630 others wounded and 2,600 homes destroyed by flash floods n northern Baghlan province, says the Ministry of Refugees and Repatriation (MoRR).
Recent flash floods from heavy rains killed at least 85 people and wounded about 100 more in four provinces in the past two days, the State Ministry for Natural Disaster Management said on Saturday. Mohammad Janan Sayeeq, a…
Farmers, who lost their crops and gardens to recent rains and floods in eastern Nangahar province, say the government should assist them. The Department of Agriculture says recent heavy rains and floods damaged crops on about 8,000 acres…
At least 55 people have been killed and nearly 70,000 forced to flee their homes as catastrophic floods and mudslides hit southeastern Brazil. Brazil’s civil defense agency said on Saturday that heavy floods hit southern part of the…
Local officials in northern Sar-i-Pul province say recent floods caused by heavy rains destroyed crops on more than 1,000 hectares of land and washed away 42 water in the province. Damla Sharifullah Mosadiq, Sar-i-Pul agriculture, irrigation and livestock…
About 70 schools and religious seminaries have been damaged in recent rain-induced flash floods in central Uruzgan province, an official said on Wednesday. Education Director Maulvi Shamsullah Kamran said the recent floods damaged 33 schools and 37 seminaries…
Seven members of a family, including women and children, were killed when their house was swept away by gushing floodwaters in Kajaki district of southern Helmand province. Information and Culture director Hafiz Abdul Bari Rashid told Pajhwok floods…
Residents of central Uruzgan province during a meeting with the provincial governor said the government should reconstruct development projects damaged in recent flash floods. They called on Governor Maulvi Inayatullah Shuja. Mohammad Ibrahim, an inhabitant Safidkhar area of…
The Ministry of Transport and Civil Aviation (MoTCA) has predicted heavy rain with lightning and floods in 14 provinces of the country tomorrow (Wednesday).
Flash floods killed two men and damaged houses and lightning strike killed a woman and injured a girl in western Badghis province, an official said on Thursday. Police spokesman Sediqullah Sediqi in a statement said one man died…
Flash floods caused by heavy rains killed five members of a family, hundreds of cattle and washed away thousands of acres of agricultural land and hundreds of residential houses in western Herat province, an official said on…
The worst flooding in decades in southwestern Somalia has killed at least 29 people and forced 300,000 more to flee their homes, media reports said on Thursday. Muhammad Malein Abdullah, head of Somalia Natural Disaster Management Agency, told…
The Ministry of Transport and Aviation on Saturday predicated heavy rains with lightning and flash floods in nine provinces of the country. In a statement, the ministry said heavy rainfall with lightning and flash floods were expected today…
The Ministry of Energy and Water (MoEW) has predicted relatively heavy rains, flash floods and rising water levels in rivers for the next two days and asked residents to go to safe areas. Today (Wednesday), the ministry said…
Families whose houses and belongings were washed away by Sunday night floods in eastern Kunar province ask the government to assist them. Residents of Asadabad, the provincial capital, and Watapur district suffered heavy financial losses due to server…
At least two persons have been killed after flash flooding from seasonal rains hit Syed Karam and Mirzaka districts of southeastern Paktia province, an official said on Tuesday. AmanullahAman, head of Natural Disaster Management for Paktia province, told…
The acting government has distributed 3.35 million afghanis among floods-affected families in the Jalrez district of central Maidan Wardak province. Every family of the deceased was given 100,000 afghanis and of the injured 50,000 afghanis. According to figures…
At least 31 people have been killed, 41 missing and another 74 wounded in rains-induced floods during the past four days across the country, Afghanistan National Disasters Management Authority (ANDMA) officials said on Monday. Shafiullah Rahimi, ANDMA spokesman,…
Flash floods triggered by torrential rains killed at least 22 people and also caused landslides in northern India, media reports said on Tuesday. Reuters reported schools in New Delhi were closed after heavy rains lashed the national capital…
Unleashed by heavy rains, flash floods killed three people and damaged homes and destroyed the road connecting Kamdesh and Bargi Matal districts with Paron, the capital of eastern Nuristan province. Heavy rains lashed Kamdesh and Want Wegal districts…
At least two people have been killed and three others injured as a result of flash floods triggered by heavy rainfall in eastern Kunar and Nuristan provinces. Ehsanullah Ehsan, an official of the natural disaster management authority, told…
At least five people have been killed and hundreds of houses destroyed due to the recent flash floods last week across the country, the Afghan Red Crescent Society (ARCS) said on Sunday. ARCS wrote on its twitter handle…
