“I was in the mosque when the flood came through the door,” he tells me. “We were all under water. Some of us managed to get onto the roof. With the help of others, we knocked through a window. I tied the children with a shawl, then my friend pulled them up onto the roof.”

At least 50 people have died in Afghanistan in flooding following heavy rain in the northern province of Baghlan, a spokesman for the Ministry of the Interior said, adding that the death toll may rise.

The U.N. food agency says more than 300 Afghans have died in flash floods that also destroyed more than 1,000 houses in the northern province of Baghlan.

PUL-I-KHUMRI (Pajhwok): At least 50 people have been killed as a result of flash floods in northern Baghlan province, an official said on Saturday. Hidayatullah Hamdard, director of the Natural Disaster Management Authority, told Pajhwok Afghan News the floods swept through Nahrin, Borki and Baghlan-i-Markazi districts late on Friday.

Survivors of the devastating floods that struck northern Afghanistan last week are still searching for their missing loved ones and burying their dead

Cuando Abdul Ghani, un agricultor, se enteró de que devastadoras inundaciones habían azotado su aldea en el norte de Afganistán la semana pasada, se apresuró a regresar desde la provincia vecina de Kunduz donde estaba visitando a familiares.

Some of the worst flash flooding in recent memory swept through parts of Afghanistan over the weekend, leaving more than 300 people dead, 1,600 people injured, with hundreds missing, and more than 1,000 homes destroyed,