Officials said on Tuesday that 29 people were killed in two provinces of Afghanistan due to heavy rain and hail. Muhammad Israel Sayar the head of the province’s Disaster Management Department said, “21 people killed and 6 were injured” because of hail and heavy rain in the western Farah province of Afghanistan. He told the dead people were the members of two families who had gone for a picnic. The local disaster management department said that in Southern Kandahar eight people were killed due to heavy rain including women and children in several locations.
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The statement said, “Today four women were carried away in floodwater who were busy washing clothes and only one survived”. He also said that a kid drowned in Kandahar while a roof fell on a family which killed one woman and three kids. After years of war among the poorest countries in the world, Afghanistan is prominently open to the effects of climate change, which scientists say stimulates harsh weather.
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Afghanistan is ranked as the sixth most dangerous country to climate change. In 2023 Stephen Rodriques the UN Development Agency’s representative in Afghanistan said that drought, floods, land degradation, and declining agricultural productivity are major hazards in Afghanistan. Last year in May severe floods killed hundreds of people and engulfed tracts of agricultural lands in Afghanistan, where around 80% of people survived on farming.
