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Flooding caused by heavy rain in Afghanistan
1. DATE
Sunday 24 June, 2007
2. WEATHER CONDITIONS
The onset of the monsoon season has brought severe weather to much of
South Asia, killing more than 500 people in storms and floods in Afghanistan,
India and Pakistan over the past week.
In Afghanistan, Unusual flash floods and a landslide have hit different parts of
Afghanistan since 24 June, and have caused the death of 60 civilians, mostly
women and children.
3. DAMAGE
Kabul
province - 3 children and 2 women dead
Some houses damaged
Number of farm animals dead
Kapisa province
- 3 people dead
1 people missing
Kunduz province - 6 children dead
Kunar province
- 7 people dead
3
people missing
2500
people evacuated
Nangarhar province
- 40 people evacuated
69
houses damaged
Kapisa province
- 3 people dead
1
people missing
Parwan province
- 5 people dead
8 people
injured
Paktya province
- 5 people dead
Several
houses damaged
Ghazni province
- 2 children dead
Hundred
of hectares of land covered by mud
Panjshir province
- 24 people dead
3 people
missing
Wardak province
- agricultural crops, trees and
livestock damaged
The floods also destroyed houses, agricultural land and orchards, bridges,
roads, dams and power supply in the area. But details of situations are
still under inspection and above numbers could be higher.
4. NUMBER OF DEAD AND DISPLACED PERSON (as of June 29, 2007)
Dead : 60
Displaced : Morethan 2,500
Missing : 8
5.LOCATION
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/fullMaps_Sa.nsf/luFullMap/BDF36471222255F1C1257309004B6219/
$File/ifrc_FF_afg070629.pdf?OpenElement
(Reliefweb)
6. GFAS RAINFALL INFORMATION
According to GFAS, daily precipitation exceeding 5-year return period was
observed
around Afghanistan on June 28 (Fig.1).
Fig.1:
GFAS Excess area map of 5-year return period precipitation (in red)
June
28, 2007
Please check GFAS page:
http://gfas.internationalfloodnetwork.org/gfas-web
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