Flash floods kill 315 in Afghanistan villages

KABUL Flash floods caused by heavy rain have devastated villages in northern Afghanistan, killing 315 people and injuring more than 1,600, the authorities said on May 12, as villagers buried their dead and aid agencies warned of widening havoc.

Thousands of homes have been damaged and livestock wiped out, the Taliban-run refugee ministry said. Humanitarian organisations have said healthcare facilities and vital infrastructure like water have been damaged by the floods, with streets left coated in mud.

In the Nahrin district of Baghlan province, people carried their shrouded dead to a gravesite.