STORY: Afghanistan floods affect over 30,000 since year-start: UN
SHOOTING TIME: May 19/20/21, 2024
DATELINE: May 21, 2024
LENGTH: 00:01:46
LOCATION: Kabul
CATEGORY: SOCIETY

SHOTLIST:
1. various of the flood-hit areas in Maimana, the capital of north Afghanistan's Faryab province
2. SOUNDBITE 1 (Pashto): MULLAH JANAN SAEQ, Spokesman for Afghanistan's national disaster authority
3. various of the flood-hit areas in Maimana, the capital of north Afghanistan's Faryab province
4. SOUNDBITE 2 (Dari): MUHAMMAD DADULLAH, Resident in Afghanistan's Faryab province
5. various of the flood-hit areas in Firoz Koh, the capital of west Afghanistan's Ghor province

STORYLINE:

More than 30,000 people have been affected by floods across Afghanistan since this year, the United Nations (UN) has said.

The UN refugees agency said on social media platform X on Monday that flood-affected people "urgently need emergency shelter, medical supplies, food, cash, safe drinking water and hygiene kits."

The World Health Organization also reported increased waterborne illnesses, notably diarrhea and skin infections in the country's northern regions, where recent floods mostly hit.

SOUNDBITE 1 (Pashto): MULLAH JANAN SAEQ, Spokesman for Afghanistan's national disaster authority
"In some provinces, such as Faryab province, several compatriots were missing and were affected by floods, and the search is ongoing."

SOUNDBITE 2 (Dari): MUHAMMAD DADULLAH, Resident in Afghanistan's Faryab province
"I am 60, and I have never seen such a flood. Fifteen people from our families were killed, and five people are missing."

At least 120 had been killed in the latest round of heavy rains and flash floods in Faryab and the western Ghor province on Friday and Saturday, local officials said Sunday.

Xinhua News Agency correspondents reporting from Kabul.
(XHTV)