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Heavy Snow, Avalanches Kill 94, Wound 115 in 22 Provinces

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(Last Updated On: October 24, 2022)

150302143213-afghanistan-avalanche-super-169At least 94 people killed and more than 115 others injured after heavy snow and avalanches hit over 22  provinces of the country, officials said.

Most parts of mountainous Afghanistan have seen heavy snowfall over the past week, causing massive avalanches with snow affecting some main roads and mountain passes.

Rescuers shoveled through deep snow, searching for victims of an avalanche that destroyed a village of Nuristan. More than 50 civilians have been killed in the past four days by avalanches caused by heavy snow in Afssani village of Barg-e Matal district of Nuristan province.

“The recent heavy snow killed 56 people and injured 65 others in the past 24 hours in this province,” said Hafiz Abdul Qayoum, governor of Nuristan province.

Government minister in parliamentary affairs has confirmed 38 killed in the recent snow falls except the Nuristan province.

“At least 38 people killed and 50 others wounded in the recent snow, nearly 13 to 14 million people have been affected and have to say endangered,” said Wais Barmak, government minister in parliamentary affairs.

Afghans fear that fresh snow forecast for later in the week could further debilitate hard-hit areas after an otherwise dry winter.

Elsewhere in the country, nearly 100 houses were damaged in latest avalanches triggered by heavy snowfall in Hesarak and Shirzad districts of Nangarhar province.

The snowfall left 11 people dead and more than 12 injured in Raghestan and Maymi districts of Badakhshan province.

In Surkh Parsa district of  northern Parwan province, over 9 people were killed by avalanches, collapsed roofs and road accidents.

Nearly four people killed in Sayad and Balkhab districts of Sar-e Pul province, and another four killed in Ghor province.

In Bamyan three people were killed in Yakawlang district and in Adraskan district of Herat province two people were killed when avalanches hit their houses overnight.

The heavy snowstorms, which began Sunday, hampered rescue efforts. Snowfall from the storm was nearly one meter (3ft) deep in places and fallen trees blocked roads in many provinces of the country.

“We are trying to clean the bigger roads and highways and in the earliest opportunity, we will clean all highways across the country,” said Mahdi Rohani, spokesman of ministry of public works.

Deadly avalanches in the winter season are common in Afghanistan which is a mountainous country.

 Reported by Ahmad Farshad Saleh

Edited by Zackarya 

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ISIS-K leader reportedly living in Pakistan’s Baluchistan province

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(Last Updated On: March 28, 2024)

Sanaullah Ghaffari, also known as Shahab al-Muhajar, is reportedly the ISIS-Khorasan (Daesh) branch leader and is holed up in Pakistan, Reuters reports.

The 29-year-old took over as leader in 2020 and under his leadership the group has carried out extreme attacks as a means of recruiting, Reuters reported.

Reuters noted that little was known about Ghafari before the deadly 2021 ISIS attack on Kabul Airport, which killed 170 Afghan civilians and 13 American soldiers.

But after Friday’s deadly attack in a concert hall in Moscow, which left 139 people dead, Ghaffari’s group has come under intense scrutiny.

Reuters reports that Ghaffari is said to have been involved in several attacks in Afghanistan, Iran, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and Pakistan.

Pakistani officials said months ago that Ghaffari had been killed in Kunar province in Afghanistan in June last year, but Reuters has reported that he did not die and instead fled to Pakistan and lives in the border province of Baluchistan.

Abdul Matin Qani, the spokesman of the Ministry of Interior of Afghanistan, says that Daesh has been suppressed in Afghanistan for more than two years and has lost its operational capacity.

The last attack carried out by Daesh in Afghanistan was the attack on the Kabul Bank office in Kandahar last week which left three dead and 12 wounded.

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IPL: Sunrisers thump MI in record breaking match

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(Last Updated On: March 28, 2024)

It was raining records at the Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium in Hyderabad on Wednesday with the hosts Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) clinching a 31-run victory over Mumbai Indians (MI) in Match 8 of the Tata Indian Premier League (IPL) 2024.

Sunrisers’ batting rewrote the record books on a batting belter after the posted 277 for three.

SRH now have the highest team score in the history of the IPL – beating Royal Challengers Bangalore’s (RCB) 263 for five from the 2013 season.

In reply, MI made a spirited effort, and at one stage, were contenders to do the near impossible. In the slog overs, the enormity of the target proved a bit too much, and SRH clinched victory, but not without numerous nervous moments.

To put into perspective the carnage we witnessed – Heinrich Klaasen’s 23-ball half-century was the slowest fifty of the SRH innings.

Travis Head, playing his first match for SRH, raced to the milestone in 18 balls. Abhishek Sharma got there even faster – in 16 balls – to record the quickest fifty by an SRH batter in IPL history.

While Sunrisers notched up the highest total in the 16-year history of the IPL, just as incredibly, Mumbai Indians almost paid them back with the same coin, their batters coming out with a nothing-to-lose attitude.

The sixes kept rolling off the Mumbai bats too, helping them keep up with the asking rate for most of the chase, eventually however, they ran out of steam and finished on 246 for 5, the highest IPL total in a losing cause.

As ESPNcricinfo reported, never were more runs scored in a men’s T20 match (523). Never were most sixes hit in a men’s T20 (38). At the end of the close to four-hour six-fest, only two bowlers returned with an economy rate of under ten an over.

Thursday, March 28 : Match 9

Thursday’s match at the Sawai Mansingh Stadium in Jaipur sees Rajasthan Royals go up against Delhi Capitals.

Fans in Afghanistan can tune in to Ariana Television to watch the match live from 6.30pm. Alternatively the match can be screened live on arianatelevision.com

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Magnitude 5.2 quake jolts Afghanistan

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(Last Updated On: March 28, 2024)

An earthquake measuring a magnitude of 5.2 on the Richter Scale jolted Afghanistan on Thursday afternoon, the National Center for Seismology reported.

The quake was at a depth of 70km and epicentered in the mountainous north-eastern area of Ashkāsham.

The jolt was felt across the region including in Kabul, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, and Kyrgyzstan

There were no immediate reports of any casualties.

In October last year, over 2,000 people were killed when four 6.3-magnitude earthquakes struck in Herat province.

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