Glide No. FL-2007- 000035-AFG
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In Brief
This Bulletin (no. 03/2007) is being issued for information only, and reflects the status of the situation and information available at this time. The Federation is not seeking funding or other assistance from donors for this operation at this time.
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The Situation
During the months of March and April 2007, Afghanistan faced a number of natural disasters like floods due to heavy rains and snow-melting, avalanches, land slides and earthquake, which severely affected 3,019 families and caused severe damages to infrastructure, houses and public service centres. Since information bulletin no.2 was released, an earthquake hit Badakhshan province (in the northern part of the country) on 4th April and floods occurred in Takhar, Kunduz, Samangan and Balkh provinces (also in the north) in the first and second weeks of April, resulting in 23 people dead, 20 injured and 1,253 families identified under category A (with houses almost fully destroyed).
Table 1: Casualties and damages caused by floods, earthquakes, avalanches and snow slides
during March-April 2007, in different regions of Afghanistan
|
Regions
|
Provinces
|
Type of
disaster |
No. of affected
families identified under category A* |
Casualties
|
|
|
Dead
|
Injured
|
||||
| North | Badakhshan, Takhar, Kunduz, Samangan, Balkh, Sari-Pul and Faryab |
Flood Earthquake Avalanches |
432
|
19
|
4
|
| West | Herat, Badghis and Ghor | Flood Snow slide |
1,813
|
23
|
16
|
| South West | Uruzgan and Helmand | Flood |
320
|
3
|
|
| East | Nangarhar, Laghman and Kunar |
Flood |
154
|
10
|
21
|
| Kabul City | Flood |
300
|
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| Total |
3,019
|
55
|
41
|