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Atif Aryan with Pascale Trouillaud in Kabul

More Than 200 Dead In Afghanistan Flash Floods: UN

Floods in Afghanistan's Baghlan province have killed more than 200 people, the IOM says (Credit: AFP)

More than 200 people were killed in flash floods that ripped through multiple Afghan provinces, the United Nations said on Saturday, as authorities declared a state of emergency and rushed to rescue the injured.

Heavy rains on Friday sent roaring rivers of water and mud crashing through villages and across agricultural land in several provinces, with northern Baghlan one of the hardest hit.

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