Deaths were caused by floods, fires and leaks from gas heaters Afghan families use to heat their homes. Read more at straitstimes.com.
KABUL - At least 166 people have died in a wave of bitterly cold weather sweeping Afghanistan, an official said on Saturday, as extreme conditions heaped misery on the poverty-stricken nation.
Aid agencies had warned before the cold snap that more than half of Afghanistan’s 38 million people were facing hunger, while nearly four million children were suffering from malnutrition. The deaths were caused by floods, fires and leaks from gas heaters that Afghan families use to heat their homes, ministry official Abdul Rahman Zahid said in a video statement.
The World Health Organisation said this week that 17 people had died in a single village in northeastern Badakhshan province due to an outbreak of “acute respiratory infection”.Afghanistan is enduring its second winter since US-backed forces withdrew and the Islamist Taliban
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