{"id":2180,"date":"2024-05-18T13:24:04","date_gmt":"2024-05-18T07:39:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=2180"},"modified":"2024-05-18T13:24:04","modified_gmt":"2024-05-18T07:39:04","slug":"flash-floods-kill-50-in-western-afghanistan-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/flash-floods-kill-50-in-western-afghanistan-police\/","title":{"rendered":"Flash floods kill 50 in western Afghanistan: police"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>Flash flooding has killed at least 50 people in western Afghanistan, provincial police said Saturday.<br \/>\n&#8220;Fifty residents of Ghor province were killed by the floods on Friday and a number of others are missing,&#8221; Ghor police spokesman Abdul Rahman Badri said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>The floods destroyed some 2,000 houses and damaged thousands more, he added. &#8220;These terrible floods have also killed thousands of cattle&#8230; They have destroyed hundreds of hectares of agricultural land, hundreds of bridges and culverts, and destroyed thousands of trees,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>Major roads into and within the province were &#8220;completely blocked&#8221;. The deadly flash flooding is the latest to hit the country in recent weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Hundreds of people were killed last week when flash flooding ripped through northern Baghlan province, according to the World Food Programme and Taliban officials.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Flash flooding has killed at least 50 people in western Afghanistan, provincial police said Saturday. &#8220;Fifty residents of Ghor province were killed by the floods on Friday and a number of others are missing,&#8221; Ghor police spokesman Abdul Rahman Badri said in a statement. The floods destroyed some 2,000 houses and damaged thousands more, he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1810,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2180"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2180"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2180\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2182,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2180\/revisions\/2182"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}