KABUL, AFGHANISTAN – A 14-year-old boy was killed and five members of the same family were injured after the roof of their mud-built home collapsed in Afghanistan’s eastern Laghman province on Thursday, local Taliban authorities said.
Khair Mohammad Ghazi, head of the Taliban disaster management department in Laghman, said the incident took place in Dawlat Shah district in the early hours of the morning. He said the structure had been weakened by recent rainfall before collapsing overnight.
The injured, which included women and children, were transported to a nearby health facility for treatment, Ghazi added.
Authorities said the house was constructed from mud, a common building material in rural Afghanistan that becomes unstable during prolonged rain.
The incident adds to a growing toll from severe weather across Afghanistan, where weeks of heavy rain, flash floods, and snowfall have affected more than 20 provinces and left dozens dead or injured, mostly women and children.
According to the Taliban figure, at least 190 people have been killed and about 250 others injured over the past month in weather-related incidents. Thousands of homes have been damaged or destroyed, farmland has been affected, and many families have been displaced.
Afghanistan remains highly vulnerable to seasonal weather extremes, particularly in rural and mountainous areas where housing infrastructure is weak, and emergency response capacity is limited.
