KABUL, AFGHANISTAN – Four members of a family, including an elderly man and three children, were killed when the roof of their house collapsed after heavy rainfall in southern Kandahar province, local sources and Taliban authorities said.
According to the sources, the incident occurred late Friday night in Kandahar’s Daman district. They cited prolonged heavy rain and the building’s deteriorated condition as contributing factors.
Local Taliban authorities confirmed the incident and the reported casualties, saying the family members were trapped inside the house when the roof gave way.
This tragedy comes amid a series of similar accidents across Afghanistan in recent weeks. Last week, seven people from a single family died when their house roof collapsed in eastern Nangarhar province. A month ago, two separate incidents in Kandahar and Herat provinces killed at least eight people, most of them children and women.
Afghanistan has been experiencing unusually heavy rainfall and snowfall in multiple provinces, causing damage to homes and infrastructure and leading to multiple casualties. Taliban authorities reported that at least 61 people have died and 110 others have been injured across 15 provinces due to severe weather, including snowfall, rain, and extreme cold.
Roof collapses and other weather-related accidents, such as flash floods, are common in rural Afghanistan, where fragile housing structures, poor construction standards, and limited safety measures increase the risks during the rainy and winter seasons.
