TIRINKOT (PAN): The Afghan Red Crescent Society (ARCS) on Saturday distributed food items to nearly 250 families displaced by recent floods in central Uruzgan province, an official said.
KABUL (PAN): President Hamid Karzai on Saturday extended his deep condolences to the people of Pakistan and their government over a tragic plane crash that killed all 127 people onboard in the capital Islamabad.
KABUL (PAN): Four people were killed and eight others, including a woman, wounded after flash floods triggered by heavy rains played havoc in Badghis, Herat and Nangarhar provinces, officials said on Saturday.
GARDEZ (PAN): Five children were killed and their parents injured when the roof of their house caved in overnight following heavy rains in the Chamkani district of southeastern Paktia province, an official said on Friday.
TIRINKOT (PAN): Hundreds of families were displaced overnight after three days of non-stop rains triggered flash flooding on the outskirts of Tirinkot, the provincial capital of central Uruzgan province, officials said on Friday.
MEHTARLAM (PAN): One person was killed and four others injured when a car crashed into another car in eastern Laghman province on Friday, traffic officials said.
JALALABAD (PAN): One person was killed and nine others, including a woman, were injured when a passenger van crashed into a car on the Jalalabad-Torkham highway in eastern Nangarhar province on Thursday, an official said.
TALOQAN (PAN): More than 100 girl students were hospitalised, apparently poisoned, after drinking water at their school in northern Takhar province, officials said on Tuesday.
KABUL (PAN): Several Afghan families who lost their loved ones in a Turkish helicopter crash in the Bagrami district of central Kabul Province last month received cash aid from Turkey on Wednesday.
