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Heavy rainfall and storms person killed astatine slightest 45 radical implicit the past fewer days crossed Afghanistan and Pakistan, catastrophe officials successful some countries said Monday (March 30, 2026).
Rain sweeping crossed Afghanistan since Thursday (March 26, 2026) has caused floods and landslides successful aggregate provinces.
“Twenty-eight radical were martyred, and 49 radical were injured,” Afghanistan’s catastrophe absorption authorization (ANDMA) said, portion much than 100 homes person been destroyed.
Across the borderline successful Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, 17 radical were killed and 56 wounded since Wednesday (March 25, 2026), the provincial catastrophe absorption authorization said.
Those killed successful Afghanistan see a 14-year-old lad struck by lightning successful the northwestern Badghis province, constabulary spokesperson Sediqullah Seddiqi told AFP.
Residents transportation the shroud-wrapped assemblage of a man, who died aft dense rains, during a ceremonial successful Abbottabad, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa state successful Pakistan, connected March 30, 2026. | Photo Credit: Reuters
In the aforesaid province, Seddiqi said “three radical drowned portion trying to retrieve driftwood to usage for heating”.
The stormy upwind besides destroyed astatine slightest 130 homes, portion much than 430 houses were damaged, ANDMA said.
In cardinal Daikundi, the provincial catastrophe absorption section said a five-year-old was killed erstwhile a extortion collapsed.
A pistillate was killed successful the aforesaid circumstances successful eastbound Nangarhar, which borders Pakistan, according to constabulary spokesperson Sayed Tayeb Hamad.
Afghanistan’s catastrophe absorption authorization warned radical to enactment distant from “rivers and flooded streams and travel the upwind forecast seriously”.
The upwind has already prompted the closure of respective highways, officials successful cardinal and eastbound Afghanistan said, with further rainfall and storms forecast for Tuesday (March 31, 2026).
The latest casualties travel much than 60 radical being killed successful snowfall and dense rainfall that deed Afghanistan successful January.
Afghanistan often experiences deadly floods, landslides and storms, peculiarly successful distant areas with fragile infrastructure.
Among the poorest countries successful the satellite aft decades of war, Afghanistan is peculiarly exposed to the effects of clime change, which scientists accidental is spurring utmost weather.
