Floods and lightning injure five in Nangarhar and Kunar

Heavy rainfall, floods and lightning in Nangarhar and Kunar provinces have damaged homes, farmland, roads and a number of public facilities and property belonging to residents.

Officials say homes and agricultural land have been damaged in several districts of Nangarhar. In Behsud district, six rooms of a house collapsed, and in Pachiragam district, two people were lightly injured after being struck by lightning.

In Kunar’s Chapa Dara district, flooding damaged nine vehicles, seven motorcycles, 17 shops, a mosque, two head of livestock, a power generator and a flour mill. The destruction of part of a road in the Digal area has also closed the route to traffic.

Officials say assessments are still under way to determine the exact scale of the damage and the number of affected families.