Heavy snow, rainfall kill 61, injure 110 over 3 days in...

Key Highlights

• Afghanistan is highly vulnerable to extreme weather events, with snow and heavy rain that triggers flash floods often killing dozens, or even hundreds, of people at a time.
• In 2024, more than 300 people died in springtime flash floods.
• Decades of conflict coupled with poor infrastructure, a struggling economy, deforestation and the intensifying effects of climate change have amplified the impact of such disasters, particularly in remote areas where many homes are built of mud and offer limited protection against sudden deluges or heavy snowfall.
• The country’s eastern provinces are also still struggling to recover from devastating earthquakes that struck last year, in late August and again in November, destroying villages and killing more than 2,200 people.
• Those displaced by the quakes are particularly vulnerable to the extreme cold and bad weather conditions.