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© BNAFlash floods in Faryab Province, Afghanistan, May 2015.
Afghanistan state news agency, Bakhtar News Agency (BNA) report that at least 7 people have been killed in flash floods in Faryab Province in the north of the country. Flash floods in Baghlan Province have killed 1 person and injured around 10 others.

Flash floods struck on 08 May 2015 in Faryab Province after a period of heavy rainfall. The districts of Garyzan, Pashtunkot and Belcheragh were worst affected. BNA report that at least 7 people were killed and over 1,500 homes damaged. The Faizabada-Takhar highway have been closed to traffic and wide areas of crops and orchards have suffered damaged.

Kuwaiti News Agency (KUNA) also report that flooding struck in the Baghlan-i-Markazi district of Baghlan province, where 1 person was killed and several injured early on Saturday 09 May 2015.

"There was heavy rain in Baghlan-e-Markazi district Friday evening and the people left their houses to safer areas. It was early Saturday when a flash flood hit the area and washed away more than 500 houses," district Governor Gohar Khan Babri told reporters in provincial capital Pul-e-Khumri, 160 km north of Kabul.