Flash floods kill 68 in Afghanistan
The New Indian Express|May 19, 2024
FLASH flooding has killed at least 68 people in western Afghanistan, provincial police said on Saturday, with some reaching safety on higher ground mere minutes before the water hit.
Flash floods kill 68 in Afghanistan

The floods on Friday also destroyed about 2,000 houses, and damaged thousands more homes and businesses, Ghor police spokesman Abdul Rahman Badri said in a statement.

The fresh flooding in the country which has experienced above-average rainfall this spring comes after flash floods on May 10 in northern Baghlan province washed away hundreds. Survivors there were still searching for missing relatives days after the disaster.

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