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More than 300 dead in Afghanistan flash floods
Heavy rains on Friday sent roaring rivers of water and mud crashing through villages and across agricultural land in several provinces, according to AFP.
Northern Baghlan Province was one of the hardest hit, with more than 300 people killed there alone, and thousands of houses destroyed or damaged, according to WFP.
“On current information: in Baghlan Province there are 311 fatalities, 2,011 houses destroyed and 2,800 houses damaged,” Rana Deraz, a communications officer for the UN agency in Afghanistan, told AFP.
Another 20 people were reported dead in northern Takhar province and two in neighboring Badakhshan, he added.