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Kabul: At least nine people have died within a day in some provinces of the country due to snowfall and cold weather.
These individuals lost their lives in the provinces of Helmand, Kandahar, Herat, Sar-e-Pul, Badakhshan, and Jawzjan, and two others were injured.
Janan Saiq, the spokesperson for the Ministry of State for Disaster Management, stated that three residential houses were also destroyed in these rains, and dozens of livestock were lost.
The Salang Pass, the Haji Gak Pass in Bamyan, the Kabul-Ghor and Kabul-Herat highways, the Sabzak Dam in Badghis, and several district routes in some provinces of the country have been closed to traffic due to rainfall.
Meanwhile according to the local officials of Faryab, more than 1000 cattle have died due to heavy snowfall and cold weather in this province.
In addition, most of the country’s highways have been blocked to traffic due to heavy snowfall, and the operation of flights at three airports in the country has been temporarily suspended.
“Faizabad and Qala-e-Naw airports have been temporarily canceled,” the spokesperson for the Ministry of Transport and Civil Aviation stated.
Citizens of the country have expressed concern about the closure of highways and transit routes and have asked officials to seriously work on reopening the roads and routes.
Based on information from the Meteorology Department of the Ministry of Transport and Civil Aviation, most provinces of the country will witness heavy snowfall, heavy rain, accompanied by flooding and storms in the next two days.
