{"id":27427,"date":"2025-02-25T19:05:57","date_gmt":"2025-02-25T19:05:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/?p=27427"},"modified":"2025-02-25T19:08:59","modified_gmt":"2025-02-25T19:08:59","slug":"farahs-deadly-deluge-claims-22-lives-and-leaves-25-injured","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/2025\/02\/farahs-deadly-deluge-claims-22-lives-and-leaves-25-injured\/","title":{"rendered":"Farah&#8217;s deadly deluge claims 22 lives and leaves 25 injured"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>FARAH CITY (SW) &#8211; The devastating flash floods in Farah province have resulted in the loss of 22 lives, with 25 others injured, local officials reported.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Mohammad Israel Sayar, head of the disaster preparedness directorate in Farah, told Salam Watandar that on Tuesday afternoon (1:00 p.m. LT), three families had gone for a recreational trip to a mountain in the &#8220;Kojar&#8221; village of Pusht-e-Koh district, where they were caught in the flood.<\/p>\n<p>Sayar added that, as a result of the flash floods in the district, 21 people have lost their lives, and five others have been injured. The victims include men, women, and children.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-27431\" src=\"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/20250225_224345.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"574\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/20250225_224345.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/20250225_224345-300x172.jpg 300w, https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/20250225_224345-768x441.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"44\" data-end=\"175\">Sayar also confirmed the death of one more person, with 20 others injured in the flash floods in the Bakwah district of Farah.<\/p>\n<p>He further mentioned that health, rescue, and security teams have been dispatched to the area to assist in rescuing and evacuating those trapped by the flood.<\/p>\n<p>According to Sayar, six houses, 800 solar panels, and 1,960 jeribs of agricultural land have been completely destroyed due to the flood.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, the Meteorological Department of the Ministry of Transport and Civil Aviation issued a warning about the potential for heavy snowfall, rainfall, and flash floods in 32 provinces on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<h6><em><strong>ENDS<\/strong><\/em><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The devastating flash floods in Farah province have resulted in the loss of 22 lives, with 25 others injured, local officials reported.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":27428,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[990,9,984,30,8,6,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest","category-soceity","category-news","category-environment","category-governance","category-afghanistan","category-headline"],"views":78,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27427"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27427\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27432,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27427\/revisions\/27432"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}