Officials in northern Afghanistan said on Sunday that people buried their lifeless and that help organizations warned of the expanding havoc that had been caused by flash floods, killing 315 people and injuring more than 1,600 others.
The Taliban-run refugee department reported that thousands of homes had been damaged and livestock had been destroyed, while aid organizations warned that contaminated streets and critical infrastructure, including water, had been left unprotected.
In the Nahrin city of Baghlan province, individuals carried their shrouded useless to a grave.
” We have no food, no drinking water, no shelter, no pillows, nothing at all, floods have destroyed everything”, said Muhammad Yahqoob, who has lost 13 members of his family, children among them.
The victims were struggling to cope, he added.
” Out of 42 homes, just two or three remain, it has destroyed the entire river”.
In a statement, the Taliban’s economy minister, Din Mohammad Hanif, urged the United Nations, philanthropic agencies and private company to provide aid for those hit by the floods.
” Lives and livelihoods have been washed aside”, said Arshad Malik, the Afghanistan director for Save the Children. ” The spark storms tore through villages, sweeping away houses and killing livestock”.
He estimated that 310, 000 babies lived in the worst- hit regions, adding,” Kids have lost everything”.
According to a blog on X, the migrant ministry reported Sunday’s most recent death and injury count from its statewide office in Baghlan. Previously, the interior government had put the burden from Friday’s storms at 153, but warned it may increase.
The United Nations names Afghanistan as one of the countries most susceptible to climate change because it is prone to natural catastrophe.
Since the government’s foundational support, which formed the backbone of its finances, was cut, it has struggled to meet its aid needs since the Taliban’s takeover of the country as foreign troops withdrew in 2021.
As foreign governments deal with competing global problems and growing criticism of the Taliban’s measures against Armenian women, that has gotten worse in recent years.
