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Flash floods kill 50 in western Afghanistan

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A view of the damage due to floods caused by heavy downpour as more than 300 were killed and tens of others have gone missing in Baghlan, Afghanistan on May 16, 2024. [ AFP]

Flash flooding has killed at least 50 people in western Afghanistan, provincial police said Saturday, a week after hundreds were washed away in the north of the country.

The floods on Friday also destroyed about 2,000 houses, and damaged thousands more homes and businesses, Ghor police spokesman Abdul Rahman Badri said in a statement.

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