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Kabul: Floods in Afganistan's Baghlan and Badakhshan provinces killed 16 people, including women and children. Here, around 500 houses were completely or partially destroyed in the flooding, according to authorities, Asian News International reported, citing TOLO News.
Local authorities of the said provinces said that floods impacted Dand-e-Ghori, Doshi, the city of Pul-e-Khumri, the village of Morchak in central Badakhshan.
Baghlan Police Command chief Abdul Ghafoor Khadem, under the Taliban regime, said that the major casualties of the flood that occurred the night before were from the Larkhab area of Doshi district in Baghlan province. Larkhab witnessed the death of six people, including three children, a woman and two men. Here, more than 300 houses were destroyed, he said.
Natural Disaster Management in Badakhshan under Taliban, Mohammad Kamgar, said that ten members of a family and one more person were injured there.
Many families who lost their belongings in the flood criticized the delay in the arrival of aid. They called for immediate assistance from the Taliban-led government as well as aid agencies.
TOLO news reported that a victim of floods named Hizbullah said that the floods took nine members of his family. Though the dead bodies of two were found, the rest are missing.
"Our request is that as we are among the affected, whatever is allocated to any part of Afghanistan, do not forget us," TOLO News quoted him.
In the devasting floods that occurred in Afghanistan in the past week, more than 300 people died while hundreds of residential houses and thousands of acres of farmland were destroyed.
Following the floods, the World Food Programme reported on May 2 that most of the areas in the country are inaccessible by vehicles, including trucks. The global organization shared a picture of its workers using donkeys to carry emergency supplies to Baghlan.
The United Nations agency wrote on X, "Flood Update: Most of the affected areas in Baghlan, #Afghanistan is inaccessible by trucks. WFP had to resort to every alternative to get food to the survivors who lost everything. The World Food Programme had to resort to any alternative to deliver food to survivors who have lost everything," it wrote.