{"id":18157,"date":"2026-07-22T07:30:20","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T07:30:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/07\/22\/un-over-40-dead-eastern-afghanistan-flash-floods\/"},"modified":"2026-07-22T07:30:20","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T07:30:20","slug":"un-over-40-dead-eastern-afghanistan-flash-floods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/07\/22\/un-over-40-dead-eastern-afghanistan-flash-floods\/","title":{"rendered":"UN Reports Over 40 Dead in Eastern Afghanistan Floods"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The United Nations spokesperson announced that more than 40 people have died, dozens have been injured, and several are missing due to heavy rainfall and flash floods in eastern provinces of Afghanistan. Stephane Dujarric stated that these floods have caused extensive financial damage to residential homes, government buildings, and commercial centers. He added that rescue teams are still searching and providing assistance in the affected areas. The UN spokesperson further noted that the organization, in cooperation with humanitarian partners, is assessing the damage and preparing to deliver emergency aid to the affected families. Eastern provinces of Afghanistan face the risk of flash floods every rainy season; these events often result in heavy casualties and damage due to weak infrastructure and vulnerable housing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UN reports over 40 dead and widespread damage from flash floods in eastern Afghanistan, with rescue efforts and emergency aid underway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18156,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,16,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-important-news","category-secondary-headline","category-security-incidents"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18157\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}