Overview
- Over the past three days, heavy snow and flash floods across several provinces left 12 people dead and 11 injured, according to Afghanistan’s disaster agency.
- The Afghanistan National Disaster Management Authority reported 274 houses fully destroyed and 1,558 partially damaged, spokesperson Mohammad Yousuf Hamad said.
- Continued rainfall in some provinces has raised fears of further losses and spurred urgent calls for assistance and stronger preparedness.
- Economic analysts said weak water-control infrastructure, poor management, and inadequate planning and budgeting intensify flood damage each year.
- Humanitarian groups, including the Norwegian Refugee Council and UN OCHA, place the disaster within a worsening crisis driven by deportations from Iran and Pakistan, prolonged drought, and recent earthquakes.