Rescuers were struggling to reach residents trapped under mud and boulders in eastern Afghanistan on Tuesday, after a major flood smashed through one province, killing at least 23 people. Around 100 people are unaccounted for, the national disaster agency and the provincial governor’s office said, also updating the death toll from Monday’s deluge. An AFP journalist saw dozens of people gathered in remote Parun, the capital of Nuristan province, using wooden poles and their bare hands to search for the missing. Afghan men stand amidst destroyed shops after flash floods hit Parun town in Afghanistan’s Nuristan province on July 21, 2026. — AFP Farid Gul Zaheer, a 34-year-old pharmacist, said he had “never witnessed such a dangerous flood”. “It…
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