AFP
More than 250 people have in recent days in Afghanistan death under snow avalanches caused by heavy precipitation. They were the most rainfall in the country for over 30 years.
Most of fatalities – 186 – was Pandższerze mountain valley located 50 km north of the capital, Kabul – said the governor of the province of the same name, Abdul Rahman Kabiri. He added that this balance may increase.
In the provinces lasting several days of heavy snowfall cut off from the world is a hundred villages. Snow also blocked the main road, making it difficult to access the areas covered by the disaster.
“of snow in parts of districts Pandższeru is so big that we do not have any messages there because power lines were severed by an avalanche,” – said AFP chief of the local police Aziz Ghairat.
According to the police authorities sent a helicopter to the buried villages medicines and blankets.
In the other provinces of the north-eastern part of Afghanistan were killed in avalanches approx. 70 people.
In avalanches and snow storms, frequent in Afghanistan, killed dozens of people every year. In 2010, in an avalanche at Salang Pass in the Hindu Kush killed more than 160 people.
For a large part of the Afghan farmers heavy snowfall is a blessing – many of them use water from the melting snow in the mountains for irrigation in spring and summer .
According to the United Nations. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), agriculture is the driving force behind the rebuilding of the Afghan war damages the economy, and three-quarters of the country’s population lives in rural areas.
Avalanches in Afghanistan. More than 250 victims – Republic
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