In Afghanistan, floods kill 70 people in five days

At least seventy people have died since last Saturday in floods and flash floods in Afghanistan, announced Wednesday April 17 Janan Sayeq, an official in the natural disaster management department.

Fifty-six people were injured, more than two thousand six hundred houses were destroyed and more than two thousand head of livestock were lost, the spokesperson added. Twenty of the thirty-four Afghan provinces have recorded a high level of precipitation for several weeks, including that of Kabul.

According to the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) in Afghanistanbad weather affected more than one thousand two hundred families.

Dry winter

Floods are affecting almost all regions this spring, a traditional period of rain in Afghanistan. At least sixty people were killed due to heavy rains in the last three weeks of March in the country.

Afghanistan experienced a very dry winter and is strongly affected by climatic upheavals. According to scientists, this country ravaged by four decades of war and which is among the poorest in the world is also one of the most poorly prepared to face the consequences of climate change.