{"id":54419,"date":"2024-05-11T20:47:49","date_gmt":"2024-05-11T16:17:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/?p=54419"},"modified":"2024-05-11T20:47:49","modified_gmt":"2024-05-11T16:17:49","slug":"flash-floods-leave-62-dead-in-north-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/54419\/flash-floods-leave-62-dead-in-north-afghanistan\/","title":{"rendered":"Flash floods leave \u06f6\u06f2 dead in north Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>A disaster management official in the northern province of Baghlan said heavy seasonal rains sparked the flooding, and residents were unprepared for the sudden rush of water.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The number of dead in today&#8217;s flood in Baghlan province has risen to 62,&#8221; Hedayatullah Hamdard, the head of the provincial natural disaster management department, told AFP.<\/p>\n<p>The toll &#8220;will probably increase&#8221; he said, adding that light rain had continued into the night in multiple districts of the province.<\/p>\n<p>Emergency personnel were &#8220;searching for any possible victims under the mud and rubble, with the help of security forces from the national army and police&#8221;, Hamdard said earlier.<\/p>\n<p>Dozens of tents, blankets and food were provided to those who lost their homes, he added.<\/p>\n<p>Since mid-April, flash flooding and other floods have left about 100 people dead in 10 of Afghanistan&#8217;s provinces, with no region entirely spared, according to authorities.<\/p>\n<p>Farmland has been swamped in a country where 80 percent of the more than 40 million people depend on agriculture to survive.<\/p>\n<p>Rains on Friday also caused heavy damages in northeastern Badakhshan province and central Ghor province, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>AMK\/PR<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A disaster management official in the northern province of Baghlan said heavy seasonal rains sparked the flooding, and residents were unprepared for the sudden rush of water. &#8220;The number of dead in today&#8217;s flood in Baghlan province has risen to 62,&#8221; Hedayatullah Hamdard, the head of the provincial natural disaster management department, told AFP. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[7103,7109,7100],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-accidents-en","category-health-en","category-international-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54419\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}