KABUL, AFGHANISTAN – Four members of a family, including three women, were killed and one person injured when the roof of their mud house collapsed in Afghanistan’s northern Kunduz province, local Taliban authorities said.
The Taliban-run National Disaster Management Department in Kunduz said the incident occurred in Kunduz city, the provincial capital, early on Tuesday morning, February 3.
The department did not provide further details about the cause of the collapse.
This is the latest in a series of deadly house roof collapses reported across Afghanistan in recent weeks amid heavy rainfall and snowfall. Last Friday, four members of a family, including three children, died when their house roof collapsed in Daman district of Kandahar province. A week earlier, seven people from one family were killed in a similar incident in eastern Nangarhar province.
Two separate incidents in Kandahar and Herat provinces last month also claimed at least eight lives, mostly children and women.
Roof collapses and other weather-related incidents, such as flash floods, are common in rural Afghanistan, where many homes are built from mud or other fragile materials. Heavy snow, rain, weak construction, and limited safety measures increase the risk of these deadly incidents.
