A local official told AFP that flash flooding that tore through Afghanistan’s Baghlan province on Friday claimed the lives of at least 50 people, the majority of whom were women and children.
Head of the provincial natural disaster management department, Hedayatullah Hamdard, stated, “As of right now, the number of dead is 50 according to the hospital authorities of Baghlan-e-Markazi district of Baghlan province,” warning that the death toll could go higher.
According to a statement made by Hamdard late Friday, emergency workers were “searching for any possible victims under the mud and rubble” with the assistance of security forces from the national army and police.
According to authorities, since mid-April, flash flooding and other floods have killed roughly 100 people in ten provinces across Afghanistan, leaving no area completely unaffected. In a nation where 80 percent of the more than 40 million people rely on agriculture for their subsistence, farmland has become overpopulated.
The country is among the poorest in the world and, scientists claim, among the least equipped to deal with the effects of climate change due to the devastation caused by four decades of war.
According to experts, Afghanistan is sixth among the nations most vulnerable to climate change despite contributing only 0.06 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions.
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