Extreme flooding, a landslide and thunderstorms in elements of Afghanistan have left 17 folks useless and 26 injured during the last 24 hours, authorities stated Sunday (March 29, 2026), the most recent casualties from excessive climate within the nation this season.
The variety of casualties may improve as crews from the nation’s Nationwide Catastrophe Administration Authority survey the affected areas, the authority’s spokesman Yousuf Hammad stated in a press release. 13 of Afghanistan’s 34 provinces, principally within the western, central and northwestern elements of the nation, have been affected.
The extreme climate additionally left 147 properties both utterly or partially destroyed, worn out 80 kilometres of roads and destroyed agricultural land and irrigation canals, Hammad stated.
Earlier this yr, heavy snowfall and flash floods left dozens of individuals useless throughout the nation.
Afghanistan is very susceptible to excessive climate occasions, with snow and heavy rain that triggers flash floods typically killing dozens, and even a whole bunch, of individuals at a time. In 2024, greater than 300 folks died in springtime flash floods.
A long time of battle coupled with poor infrastructure, a struggling economic system, deforestation and the intensifying results of local weather change have amplified the affect of such disasters, notably in distant areas the place many properties are constructed of mud and supply restricted safety towards sudden deluges or heavy snowfall. (
Printed – March 29, 2026 05:18 pm IST