KABUL AFGHANISTAN – At least 12 people, mostly women and children, were killed and 11 others injured when heavy rains caused roof and wall collapses in three provinces of Afghanistan, Taliban authorities said.
In Khost, the Taliban governor’s office reported that three women were killed and two children injured when a wall collapsed in the provincial capital on Monday.
In Nangarhar, six people, including three children, died and seven others were injured in separate incidents in Pachiragam, Khogyani, and Spin Ghar districts on Monday, the Taliban governor’s office said. In Pachiragam, the roof of a home in the Musa Khel area collapsed in the early hours, killing three children and injuring three others.
In neighboring Maidan Wardak, heavy rainfall on Sunday caused a house roof to collapse in Jaghatu district, killing a woman and two children and injuring two others, the Taliban police command said.
The latest fatalities add to a rising toll from severe weather across the country. Over the past ten days, heavy rainfall and flash floods have killed at least 99 people and injured 154, according to Taliban figures, with thousands of homes damaged or destroyed and large areas of agricultural land affected, displacing thousands of families.
Roof collapses remain a frequent cause of death in rural Afghanistan, where homes are often built with mud, straw, and other traditional materials vulnerable to prolonged rain and snow. Officials point to weak construction standards, combined with limited enforcement of safety measures, as key factors behind the high casualty rates in such incidents.
Similar incidents have occurred recently. Last week, two children died in a roof collapse in Ghani Khil district of Nangarhar. A month earlier, at least eight people, mostly women and children, lost their lives in comparable incidents in Kandahar and Herat provinces.
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