RASC: The Taliban group has announced that the recent floods in Maidan Wardak province and Paghman district of Kabul province have resulted in the death of 40 people.
Last day, July 23, the governor’s office of the Taliban group in Maidan Wardak said that the number of flood victims in this province alone has increased to 30 and 15 others have been injured.
According to the report of the National Television under the administration of the Taliban group, the flood killed 10 people, injured 20 people and destroyed a number of houses and agricultural lands in Arghandi area of Paghman district of Kabul.
According to the reports of the Ministry of Government for dealing with incidents of the Taliban group published yesterday, 31 people have died, 41 people are missing and 74 others have been injured as a result of the floods that occurred in eight provinces of the country between 20 of July and 22 of July.
Shafiullah Rahimi, the spokesperson of the Ministry of Government for the Incidents of the Taliban group, said in a press conference that the casualties caused by the floods were also recorded in Maidan Wardak, Kabul, Paktia, Ghazni, Khost, Kunar, Nuristan and Nangarhar provinces.
He added that due to the effect of these floods, 604 residential houses were completely or partially destroyed, more than 250 heads of livestock were destroyed and the crops of hundreds of acres of agricultural land were destroyed.
The spokesman of the ministry announced that natural disasters in the country have killed 214 people and injured 320 others in the last four months.
According to the spokesman of this ministry, 3,115 residential houses were completely or partially destroyed, 3,800 livestock were destroyed, and the crops of more than 41,000 acres of agricultural land and orchards were destroyed.
