MAIMANA, Afghanistan, May 26 (NNN-ANA) – New rounds of rainstorms and flooding, have claimed 17 lives and injured 11 others, in north Afghanistan’s Faryab and the neighbouring Sari Pul province, over the past two days, local officials said, yesterday.
In the Lawlash district of Faryab province, 12 people have lost their lives, and 11 others sustained injuries, due to downpours and flash floods since Friday, provincial government spokesman, Esmatullah Muradi, said.
Women and children are among the victims, the official said.
Similarly, the natural disaster has left four women and a child dead, in Sari Pul province, over the past two days, spokesman for the provincial government, Habibullah Masror, confirmed.
Heavy rains and flash floods have killed hundreds, destroyed thousands of houses and rendered thousands more homeless over the past month, in the war-ravaged Afghanistan.– NNN-ANA
