Kabul, Afghanistan: At least 80 people were killed with 100 more lost after Flash floods knocked down a village in the Taliban-controlled area in the East Afghanistan, Afghan officials said.
Floods swept most of the villages in the province of Nuristan, destroyed around 200 houses, and arrested most of the residents because they were sleeping.
On Thursday night, villagers have recovered around 80 bodies; When the search continued, local officials expect the death to death to be beyond 200.
“It was the enemy; there was nothing left after the flood,” said Abdul Naser, a resident of the district who visited the village Thursday.
“There is no help, and there are no steps for coffins, coffins, and funerals.” Flash floods are the latest blows for Afghanistan, where the battle between government and Taliban forces has fondered hundreds of thousands of people in the past few months and encouraged the country to the threshold of the humanitarian crisis, said aid agency.
Since international forces began to attract in May, the Taliban had made rapid military progress, getting control of more than half of the 400 countries.
But when militant groups pressed on the offensive, it increases the possibility of a complete Taliban takeover, many questions whether they can effectively regulate the dependent state of war and foreign assistance if they seize power.
Floods, in the Kamdesh district, offer initial tests for the Taliban capability to provide effective governance services – in the area they control.
On Thursday afternoon, local officials called the Taliban to provide assistance from aid groups to the district to provide emergency services.
But in the afternoon, the search and rescue team still cannot reach remote villages mostly because the Taliban controlled the road to the district, according to a statement from the Disaster Management Ministry.
The nearest local disaster management committee in Kunar and Laghman Province works to get their rescue team to the area.
“The area is under the Taliban control, if the Taliban allows us, we will make assistance to the area,” said Hafiz Abdul Qayum, Governor of Nuristan Province.
In a statement on Thursday night, a spokesman for Taliban, Zabiullah Mujahid, said that the group welcomed the help of aid organizations.
Floods in North and East Afghanistan are not ordinary this year.
In August last year, flooded Charikar, a city at the foot of the Hindu Mountains Kush, in North Afghanistan, killing at least 92 people and injuring 108 others.
But the flash floods in Nuristan came because extreme weather had taken gloomy victims around the summer world and these scientists warned that warming caused by greenhouse gas emissions was changing the climate.
Heavy rainfall is a sign that can be seen from the change, they said, because the warm atmosphere can accommodate more moisture – producing stronger rain.
This month alone, floods that are considered once-in-millennium or rarely kill at least 170 people in Europe and cause billions in damage after home, business, vehicles and drain systems removed.
Floodwaters trapped fearful passengers in the sunken subway car, swept the car and caused a power outage in Zhengzhou, China.
And Rain Monsun triggered flash floods at the Grand Canyon in the United States.
In the past few decades, Flash floods became increasingly common in Afghanistan after experienced deforestation largely destroyed open forests and closed forests that had slowed down the flow of mountain slopes.
With weak governance and rooted conflicts placing people in additional dangers, Afghanistan consistently ranks as one of the countries most vulnerable to climate change, according to the World Bank.
Of the 110,000 Afghans who have been influenced by a kind of natural disaster so far this year, 75% experienced flooding, according to the United Nations.