Tuesday, May 24, 2016
Kabul (BNA) The state ministry on the natural disasters investigation has said that some aids had been provided to the recently seasonal floods hit people in Sar-e-Pul province, as the local elders quoted to say.
More than 20 people had been killed and 35 others injured or missing as well as 200 houses and hundreds of areas of lands had been washed out or drowned in mud and mire in the heavy floods, said local officials. According to spokesperson of the state ministry on the natural disasters investigation, Omar Mohammadi the aids duly supplied for the floods affected households, included 250 tens, edible and inedible items. According to the administration’s survey coordinated with the international institutions, 21people had been killed, 21 other injured-some critically, 48 houses completely, and 14 residential units partially destroyed in the intense floods ripped through a village in Kuhistanat district of the northern province of Sar-e-Pul. Six killed and five others wounded in another case of flood happened in Shuhada, Tashkan and Tagab districts of another northern province, Bdakhshan, where the organ said provided 550 households with some aids recently. In some provinces of the country, like Panjshir, the incident left no casualties but, destroyed the road, with the immediate cooperation in coordination with the ministry of public works, reached at the scene to reopen the road nearby the river. Two killed in similar disaster, in Parwan province, where the administration distributed needed items, according to Mohammadi. In southern province of Paktia, aids had been shifted to the total 572 flood affected households, mostly in Sayed Karam and Samkanai districts, were each households received one case and edible items including 50 kilo of flour and five litter cooking oil, the spokesman said. The spokesman went on as saying the a high state commission on counter-disasters chaired by Dr. Abdullah Abdullah the country’s Chief Executive, with 19 members from the ministries of defense, finance, Red Crescent Society, ministry of public works and other related government organs was the main cooperator for the natural disaster affected areas in the country. Likewise, other international institutions including WFP, LOM, UNHCR and Safe the Children were among those entities provided aids for the effected families in the flood hit areas, “Anywhere, if the aids had been evidently reported to have been unfairly distributed, means that I will bid farewell to your,” the spokesman assured. The vulnerable regions at the zone, province and district levels had been notified and the aids had been expected to be supplied once similar incident take place.
Shukria Kohistani