At least 60 people have died in the past three weeks in Afghanistan amid snowfall and rain, the disaster management ministry said today. “The first information from the provinces is about 60 dead and 23 injured due to the snowfall and rain since February 20,” ministry spokesman Janan Sayek said in a statement. At least 1,645 homes were destroyed or damaged across the country and nearly 178,000 animals were lost, he said. Late winter is traditionally a time of deadly bad weather in Afghanistan. Thus, in Herat province, in the west, sudden flooding occurred after heavy rains since Monday evening. Five members of the same family died yesterday and two were injured when the roof of their house collapsed due to rain in the capital Herat, Abdul Zaher Nurzai, from the Disaster Management Agency, told the press. About 250 houses were destroyed in the center of Herat and in […]
Source: News Beast
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