KABUL, 16 July 2024 – Floods from heavy rains and storms have killed about 40 people[1] in eastern Afghanistan and about 1,500 children have lost their homes in the latest climate disaster to hit the country suffering its worst humanitarian crisis in decades, Save the Children said.
About 1.36 million people - of which an estimated 858,000 are children - live in the districts in Nangarhar, Kunar, and Laghman provinces that have been impacted by the storms that come just two months after heavy rainfall in the northeast killed about 350 people.[2]
The latest floods have injured at least 350 people and caused extensive damage to about 400 houses as well as an infections and communicable diseases hospital in Jalalabad city - according to the de facto authorities – although these numbers are likely to change, with wide variations in the reporting as rescue operations continue.
