Flash floods kill 50 in west Afghanistan

By Agence France-Presse

May 19, 2024 12:18 am

KABUL – Flash floods have killed at least 50 people in western Afghanistan, provincial police said on Saturday, a week after hundreds were washed away in the South Asian country's north.

The floods on Friday also destroyed about 2,000 houses, and damaged thousands more homes and businesses, Ghor provincial police spokesman Abdul Rahman Badri said in a statement.

WEATHER WOES A young Afghan man carries a soiled mattress as residents try to salvage their belongings at a flood-damaged house in the city of Firozkoh, Ghor province, western Afghanistan on May 18, 2024. AFP PHOTO

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