More than 1,500 dead in Afghanistan due to floods and earthquakes in the last two months

Sep. 3 (EUROPA PRESS) –

At least 1,570 people have died and almost 6,000 have been injured by the floods and earthquakes that Afghanistan has suffered in the last two months, marked by natural disasters in different parts of the region.

A Taliban spokesman, Suhail Shaheen, has taken stock of a chain of disasters that in Afghanistan alone has caused some 2 billion dollars in damage. More than 35,000 homes have been destroyed in this time, reports the Bloomberg agency.

The Taliban regime has requested international aid to deal with the emergency, which is exacerbating the crisis in a country where half the population has serious food needs and there are hardly any prospects for economic development.

Those of this summer are the worst disasters that the country has suffered since at least 2,000 people perished in 2014 due to a massive landslide in the province of Badakhshan, in the northeast of Afghanistan.