Death toll in Afghanistan cold snap rises to 166, official says | The Guardian Nigeria News - Nigeria and World News ⚠️
In this file photo taken on January 23, 2023, Afghan burqa-clad women carry children as they walk along a snow laden street in Kabul. – At least 166 people have perished in a wave of bitterly cold weather sweeping Afghanistan, officials said January 28, as extreme conditions continue to heap misery on the poverty-stricken nation.
Aid agencies had warned before the cold snap that more than half of Afghanistan’s 38 million people were facing hunger, while nearly four million children were suffering from malnutrition. The deaths were caused by floods, fires and leaks from gas heaters that Afghan families use to heat their homes, ministry official Abdul Rahman Zahid said in a video statement.
The World Health Organization said this week 17 people had died in a single village in northeastern Badakhshan province due to an outbreak of “acute respiratory infection”.Afghanistan is enduring its second winter since US-backed forces withdrew and the Islamist Taliban surged back into Kabul to reclaim government.
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