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Afghan flash floods cause mayhem

Huge numbers of illegally constructed homes pose a threat to the families living in them, according to the government, and are especially prone to being washed away in heavy rains and floods Ahmad Zia Entezar/IRIN
    KABUL

    Flash floods due to heavy rain have killed at least 19 people and damaged hundreds of houses in different parts of the country over the past two weeks, Afghanistan’s National Disasters Management Authority told IRIN on 15 April.



    Local officials in Badakhshan and Daykundi provinces (in northeastern and central Afghanistan respectively) are warning of shortages of food and clean water and the risk of diseases breaking out in flood-affected areas.



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