KABUL (SW): The Salang Pass management authority has cleared the patches engulfed by floods after which the road link between capital Kabul has been restored with 9 Northern provinces.
The connection was broken for hours after torrential rains in the Baghlan province caused floods.
Brig. Gen. Mohammad Rajab, head of security and reconstruction for the Salang Pass, told Salam Watandar that though the clearance operation was still underway but two-way traffic has been restored. More than 100 homes have been damaged due to the prevailing situation.
A day earlier, Mohammad Naseer Kohzad, director provincial disaster management authority, confirmed that besides demolishing up to 120 homes, the floods have also destroyed crops at hundreds of acres of land. He informed that damage assessment is underway after which the affected families would be compensated.
According to the information available with the local authorities, the floods have left up to two hundred families displaced in the province’s Dahan-e-Ghori and Nahrin districts.
