Survivors pick through debris-littered streets and damaged buildings as rescue workers dispatched amid warning some areas cut off by flooding
Afghan men shovel mud from a house following flash floods after heavy rains at a village in the Baghlan-e-Markazi district of northern Afghanistan’s Baghlan province on Saturday.Afghan men shovel mud from a house following flash floods after heavy rains at a village in the Baghlan-e-Markazi district of northern Afghanistan’s Baghlan province on Saturday., the UN’s World Food Programme said, as authorities declared a state of emergency and rushed to rescue the injured.
“On current information: in Baghlan province there are 311 fatalities, 2,011 houses destroyed and 2,800 houses damaged,” said Rana Deraz, a communications officer for the UN agency in Afghanistan.The UN’s International Organisation for Migration said on Saturday that there were 218 deaths in Baghlan. Abdul Mateen Qani, spokesman for the interior ministry, told Agence France-Presse that 131 people had been killed in Baghlan, but that the government toll could rise.
“By announcing the state of emergency in areas, the ministry of national defence has started distributing food, medicine and first aid to the impacted people,” it said. “These latest floods have caused a major humanitarian emergency in Afghanistan, which is still reeling from a string of earthquakes” this year and severe flooding in March, IRC country director Salma Ben Aissa said.
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