{"id":7094,"date":"2026-02-17T07:45:33","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T07:45:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/02\/17\/floods-destroy-20-homes-kohsan-herat\/"},"modified":"2026-02-17T07:45:33","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T07:45:33","slug":"floods-destroy-20-homes-kohsan-herat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/02\/17\/floods-destroy-20-homes-kohsan-herat\/","title":{"rendered":"Floods Destroy 20 Homes in Kohsan District, Herat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Department for Disaster Management in Herat province has announced that severe floods in Kohsan district have completely destroyed 20 houses, while several others have suffered damage.<\/p>\n<p>Abdul Ghani Kamel, head of the department, stated that the incident caused no casualties but inflicted significant financial losses on local residents.<\/p>\n<p>He added that, besides residential homes, more than 30 water wells were destroyed by the floods, which could lead to difficulties for families in accessing drinking water.<\/p>\n<p>The head of Herat&#8217;s Disaster Management Department also mentioned that, in cooperation with several aid organizations, immediate assistance has been distributed to the affected families. Kohsan is a border district of Herat with Iran, and during the rainy seasons, some areas are at risk of flooding.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Severe floods in Herat\u2019s Kohsan district destroyed 20 homes, damaged wells, and prompted emergency aid for affected families.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7093,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-important-news","category-security-incidents"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7094","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=7094"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7094\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}