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Snow covers the streets of the city of Ghazni , southwest from Kabul, Sunday, Jan. 24, 2025. Heavy snow and rainfall over the previous three days have killed and injured scores of individuals throughout Afghanistan, the nation’s catastrophe administration authority stated Saturday.
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KABUL, Afghanistan — Heavy snow and rainfall over the previous three days have killed greater than 60 folks and injured over 100 throughout Afghanistan, the nation’s catastrophe administration authority stated Saturday, as authorities within the impoverished nation struggled to open roads and achieve entry to cut-off villages.
Nationwide Catastrophe Administration Authority spokesman Yousaf Hammad stated 61 folks had died and 110 had been injured, whereas 458 houses had been fully or partially destroyed and a whole lot of animals had died in 15 of Afghanistan’s 34 provinces. The numbers, he stated, might change as authorities gathered extra info from the provinces.
Afghanistan is very susceptible to excessive climate occasions, with snow and heavy rain that triggers flash floods typically killing dozens, and even a whole lot, of individuals at a time. In 2024, greater than 300 folks died in springtime flash floods.
Many years of battle coupled with poor infrastructure, a struggling economic system, deforestation and the intensifying results of local weather change have amplified the influence of such disasters, notably in distant areas the place many houses are constructed of mud and provide restricted safety towards sudden deluges or heavy snowfall.
The nation’s japanese provinces are additionally nonetheless struggling to recuperate from devastating earthquakes that struck final yr, in late August and once more in November, destroying villages and killing greater than 2,200 folks.
These displaced by the quakes are notably susceptible to the acute chilly and dangerous climate situations. In December, UNICEF stated an estimated 270,000 kids within the areas affected by the quakes had been at “extreme danger of life-threatening ailments associated to the chilly.”
Earlier this month, the United Nations stated Afghanistan would “stay one of many world’s largest humanitarian crises in 2026.” The U.N. and its humanitarian companions launched a $1.7 billion enchantment to help almost 18 million folks in pressing want within the nation.
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