The number of people who died of cold in the last two weeks in Afghanistan reached 39
The spokesman of Afghanistan's Natural Disaster Management Department announced that 39 people died due to extreme cold and snowfall in the last two weeks. |
According to the regional office of Tasnim News Agency, “Janan Sayegh, the spokesperson of the Afghanistan Natural Disaster Management Department, announced the number of human casualties due to severe cold in different provinces of the country since the last two weeks.
Expressing his regret for the damage caused by the unexpected events of recent weeks and expressing his sympathy to the families of the victims, he stated: 39 people have died, 30 people have been injured and 637 residential houses have been destroyed due to snowfall and extreme cold in Afghanistan. /p>
He added that the heavy snowfall and severe cold in Afghanistan have blocked the travel routes of many provinces. There have also been reports of the destruction of mud houses and the loss of about 14,000 livestock and damage.
Local sources in Parwan, Kandahar, Khost, Kapisa, Sarpol, Paktia, Faryab, Kabul, Zabul, Laghman, Samangan, Nangarhar Paktika, Badakhshan have also reported human and animal deaths due to the cold.
Afghanistan Disaster Management Authority recently announced that during the past few weeks, many provinces of Afghanistan have witnessed cold weather. They have been extremely cold, so that at the weekend, the lowest air temperature in Ghor province was recorded at minus 33 degrees.
Currently, heavy rain is falling in many provinces of Afghanistan. The snow has led to the blocking of transportation routes. Shafiullah Rahimi, the spokesman of the Ministry of Crisis Management of the Taliban government, told CNN last year that due to the cold weather in At least 157 people have lost their lives in Afghanistan.
© | Webangah News Hub has translated this news from the source of Tasnim News Agency |