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KABUL: Heavy rain and storms have killed at least 28 people over the past few days across Afghanistan, disaster officials said on Monday.
Rain sweeping across Afghanistan since Thursday has caused floods and landslides in multiple provinces. “Twenty-eight people were martyred, and 49 people were injured,” Afghanistan’s disaster management authority (ANDMA) said, while more than 100 homes have been destroyed.
Those killed include a 14-year-old boy struck by lightning in the northwestern Badghis province, police spokesman Sediqullah Seddiqi said.
In the same province, Seddiqi said “three people drowned while trying to recover driftwood to use for heating”.
