Kabul, Afghanistan – AFP At least 35 people were killed and 230 injured on Monday after heavy rain in eastern Afghanistan, a local official said. “On Monday evening, stormy rains killed 35 people and injured 230 others in Jalalabad and certain districts of Nangarhar” province, Quraishi Badloon, head of the department of infor...
Dushanbe, Tajikistan – AFP At least 21 people have died following torrential rains in Tajikistan, authorities said Wednesday, the latest natural disaster to hit the mountainous Central Asian country. The deaths were reported in three towns near the capital Dushanbe, after heavy rains on Sunday and Monday triggered flooding, landslides an...