Heavy rains set off flash floods, killing dozens of people in Afghanistan

(15 Apr 2024)
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Herat, Afghanistan - 15 April 2024
1. Various of flood water
2. Close to the bridge pillar
3. Long shot of muddy river
4. Various of Najibullah Khan cleaning his damaged house
5. Various of damaged house
6. Soundbite (Dari) Najibullah Khan, local resident:
"As you see, the flood water came from the alley, all these areas came under water and the walls collapsed, since two days the flood water is coming here frequently."
7. Various of Abdul Sattar cleaning his garden
8. SOUNDBITE (Dari) Abdul Sattar, local resident:
"If the canal was not closed my garden would have been completely destroyed, however the walls are collapsed, it needs to be rebuilt."
9. Various of damaged garden
10. SOUNDBITE (Dari) Bashir Ahmad, local resident:
"We ask the organisation and foreign countries to help flood victims and needy people, they cannot rebuild them themselves."
11. Various of flood water
STORYLINE:
Heavy flooding from seasonal rains in Afghanistan has killed at least 33 people and injured 27 others in three days, a Taliban spokesman said Sunday.
The Taliban’s spokesman for the State Ministry for Natural Disaster Management, said Sunday that flash floods hit the capital, Kabul, and several provinces.
He added more than 600 houses were either damaged or destroyed while around 200 livestock died.
The flooding also damaged around 800 hectares of agricultural land and more than 85 kilometres (53 miles) of roads.
He added that Western Farah, Herat, southern Zabul and Kandahar are among the provinces that suffered the most damage.
The weather department forecast more rain in most of Afghanistan’s 34 provinces in the coming days.
AP video shot by Omid Haqjo
Production by Fazel Rahman Faizi
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Terrible 😢