(Kabul) Some 70 people have died since last Saturday in floods and flash floods in Afghanistan, an official from the Department of Natural Disaster Management announced on Wednesday.
“The rains continued in Afghanistan after Eid el-Fitr (the end of the fasting month of Ramadan) and around 70 people were killed” in the last five days, Janan Sayeq announced in a video statement.
Fifty-six people were injured, more than 2,600 houses destroyed and more than 2,000 head of livestock were lost, the spokesperson added.
Around twenty of the 34 Afghan provinces have recorded a high level of precipitation for several weeks, including the province of Kabul.
Floods are affecting almost all regions this spring, a traditional period of rain in Afghanistan.
Some 60 people were killed after heavy rains in the last three weeks of March in the country.
Afghanistan experienced a very dry winter and is strongly affected by climatic upheavals.
According to scientists, this country ravaged by four decades of war and which is among the poorest in the world is also one of the most poorly prepared to face the consequences of climate change.