KABUL: At the least 60 folks have been killed by heavy rain and snow in Afghanistan over the previous three weeks, the federal government’s catastrophe ministry stated Wednesday.Afghanistan has been parched by an unusually dry winter, however the finish of the season is generally a time when lethal unhealthy climate — significantly floods — batter communities.”Because of the snow and rains unfortunately sixty compatriots have been martyred and 23 people injured” since February 20, ministry spokesman Janan Sayeq stated in a video assertion.About 1,645 homes have been completely or partially ruined and practically 178,000 livestock killed, he added.Because the collapse of the US-backed authorities and the return of the Taliban, international help to Afghanistan has shrunk dramatically, undermining the already impoverished nation’s means to reply to disasters.Western Herat province — nonetheless reeling from a succession of devastating earthquakes in October — has been hit by flash floods after heavy rain since Monday night.5 members of the identical household had been killed Tuesday when the roof of their residence collapsed within the provincial capital of Herat metropolis, catastrophe administration official Abdul Zaher Noorzai advised reporters.Provisional knowledge confirmed about 250 homes had been destroyed and huge tracts of farmland flooded, he added, saying help ought to start arriving on Thursday.Like many different homes within the space, the one which caved-in on the 5 kinfolk had been broken in a collection of earthquakes 5 months in the past, native imam Naqibullah advised AFP.The trio of quakes — beginning on October 7 — killed practically 1,500 and left some 30,000 properties completely or partially destroyed, in line with the United Nations.
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