Heavy flooding from seasonal rains in japanese Afghanistan has left at the least 9 individuals lifeless, swept away properties and destroyed livestock and agricultural land.
Video footage reveals villagers within the Khushi district of Logar province, south of the capital Kabul, cleansing up after the flooding, their broken properties in disarray.
Abdullah Mufaker, head of Logar province’s pure catastrophe administration ministry, mentioned it's nonetheless unknown how many individuals have been killed and injured however there have been at the least 9 fatalities.
Del Agha, a village elder, mentioned the flooding was unprecedented within the historical past of Khushi.
“It destroyed all of the individuals’s animals, homes and agricultural lands,” he mentioned.
“Individuals are homeless, they've been refuged to the mountains.”
Final week, heavy rains set off flash floods that killed at the least 31 individuals and left dozens lacking in northern Afghanistan.