According to the CCTV news client, on May 11, local time, Majid, a spokesman for the governor of Afghanistan's Baghlan Province, released a message saying that up to now, the recent flood disaster in the province has killed 130 people and injured more than 100 people.
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According to local media reports in Afghanistan on the 11th, floods occurred in Baghlan Province in the north of the country on the 10th, killing more than 100 people and injuring dozens of others.
Head of the Baghlan Provincial Disaster Management Department, Hedayatllah Hamdald, said that the floods mainly occurred in the city of Pulemri, the capital of the province, as well as in Barka and Nahrin districts. At present, rescue workers are still carrying out rescue at the scene of the disaster.
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According to local media reports, the northern provinces of Badakhshan, Takhar and Samangan also suffered floods on the 10th, causing casualties and property damage.
Since late March, heavy rainfall has occurred in many parts of Afghanistan, causing floods and landslides, which have killed more than 140 people in Afghanistan.
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Floods in Afghanistan's Takhar province have killed 20 people
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On May 11, local time, Ahmad Seyar Sajid, head of the natural disaster management department in Takhar Province, Afghanistan, said that recent floods in many districts of the province have killed 20 people and injured 14 people.
In addition to human casualties, the floods also caused huge economic losses, with more than 300 homes and a large amount of farmland destroyed. At the same time, due to the collapse of the mountain, traffic on some important sections of the road was blocked.
Source: China News Service synthesized from CCTV news client
Editor: Xiao Yan