Afghanistan floods blamed for dozens of deaths as severe storms wreak havoc in the country's east

Flash floods, high winds and heavy rain brought by a series of storms have devastated eastern Afghanistan, killing at least 40 people and causing widespread destruction, according to officials and aid workers. The hardest-hit area has been in and around Jalalabad city, the capital of Nangarhar province.As of Tuesday evening, the Taliban-run Afghan government's Ministry of Public Health put the death toll at 40 and said almost 350 others had been injured.

In the province's Surkhrod district, five members of the same family, including children, were killed when the roof of their house collapsed and four other family members were wounded, according to Sediqullah Quraishi, a spokesman for the Nangarhar information and culture department.Images shared on social media showed uprooted trees, toppled electricity poles, collapsed roofs and perilously exposed electrical wires dangling over some homes still standing.

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