At least 100 people have died due to heavy flooding in northern and eastern regions of Afghanistan that severely damaged large parts of Charikar city, the capital of Parwan province, officials reported.
The Ministry of Disaster Management in a statement said that several children were among the dead in Charikar city, which was overnight hit by heavy rains.
On Wednesday, spokeswoman for Afghanistan’s Parwan province, Wahida Shahkar, said the total tally of casualties might increase as rescue teams work to find people buried under destroyed houses.
Shahkar also stated that controlling the incident and helping the victims affected by the flooding was beyond the scope of the local government, and that the central government should step in swiftly.
Spokesman for the disaster management ministry, Ahmad Tameem Azimi, reported at least 300 houses being destroyed in Parwan and over a thousand people displaced.
Azimi confirmed that ground and air support had reached the affected provencies to help people trapped by the flooding.
He also stated hundreds of acres of agricultural land being destroyed in the eastern province of Nuristan and houses and roads being destroyed in Kapisa, Panjshir, and Paktia provinces.
Afghan President Ashraf Ghani expressed his condolences to the victims’ families as well as directed delivery of aid to Parwan and other provinces.
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Earlier this month, flash floods in the eastern province of Nangarhar had killed 16 people, including 15 children, and destroyed dozens of houses.