Floods Flooding Since Early March Has Killed at Least 83 People and Damaged Hundreds of Houses Across Afghanistan

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Afghanistan: Floods Flooding since early March has killed at least 83 people and damaged hundreds of houses across www.reliefweb.int Afghanistan. Up to 25,000 affected by floods and avalanches. Floods have hit the capital, Created by ReliefWeb on 04 April 2007 Kabul, and cut off major highways, hampering relief efforts. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs GMT +4:30 - OCHA Situation Report No. 1, 04 Apr 2007 United Nations KAZAKHSTAN UZBEKISTAN TAJIKISTAN UZBEKISTAN CHINA KYRGYZSTAN TURKMENISTAN Badakhshan Province TAJIKISTAN CHINA - 36 missing due to TURKMENISTAN avalanche on 28 March Kabul JAMMU and KASHMIR AFGHANISTAN Fayzabad IRAN NEPAL Zebak District BADAKHSHAN PAKISTAN AFGHANISTAN - 13 killed, 3 injured INDIA Faryab Province Panjshir Province - 36 damaged houses OMAN - 9 killed Zebak - 40 houses destroyed Meymaneh Shinwari District Laghman Province Badghis Province FARYAB - 4 killed - 8 killed, 8 injured - 1,575 affected - 900 families affected Bamyan Province - 2,500 displaced - 78 houses destroyed - 28 killed JAMMU BADGHIS - 60 houses destroyed PANJSHIR Gulran KAPISA Kunar Province Bamyan - 13 killed, 8 injured Qala-I-Naw PARWAN KUNAR Gulran District - 1,100 houses damaged and Chaghcharan BAMYAN Asadabad - 6 killed Kabul LAGHMAN - 1,530 families affected Hirat KABUL Jalalabad - 1,700 houses destroyed KASHMIR* HIRAT GHOR NANGARHAR ISLAMIC DAY KUNDI Nangarhar Province Ghazni - 99 families affected REPUBLIC OF KHOST GHAZNI IRAN Khost URUZGAN Kabul City Day Kundi Province - 240 houses destroyed Tirin Kot - 35 killed, 24 injured - 1,100 displaced - 40,754 affected SITUATION - 1,268 houses destroyed • Besides human casualties, tens of thousands of hectares of Lashkar Gah agricultural land damaged INTERNATIONAL BOUNDARY • Over 300km of roads destroyed ACTION AFFECTED PROVINCE HILMAND • GovernmentPAKISTAN of Afghanistan declared humanitarian emergencies in 13 of Affected District its 34 provinces and requested assistance from international community National Capital • WFP, UNHCR, IOM, UNHCR and UNICEF, Afghan Red Crescent Society, Populated Place Care and NRC responding with food, shelter and other vital assistance LINKS 0 50 100 • OCHA Situation Report No. 1 Kilometres • Latest updates for Afghanistan: Floods and avalanche INDIA • Related maps Map data sources: UNCS, ESRI, AIMS ______________________________________________________ Based on OCHA Situation Report No. 1, issued 04 April 2007 The boundaries and names shown and the designations used on this map do not imply official endorsement or acceptance by the United Nations. *Dotted line represents approximately the Line of Control in Jammu and Kashmir agreed upon by India and Pakistan. The final status of Jammu and Kashmir has not yet been agreed upon by the parties..

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