Disaster management officials said heavy rains earlier this week triggered flash floods in the province of Parwan – which borders Kabul – Reuters news agency reported.
Dozens of houses and cars have been destroyed and the number of victims could be much higher, provincial spokeswoman Parwan Waheeda Shakar said on Wednesday.
Police and rescue teams have arrived in the area and are assisting residents, she said.
Officials said more than 1,500 houses north of the capital, Kabul, had been destroyed, leaving many missing.
A spokesman for the Ministry of Disaster Management said floods also affected eight of the country’s northern provinces. The spokesman said climate change made the floods that hit the country worse.
For centuries, agriculture in South Asia has been dependent on the annual monsoon, which runs from about June to September. But intense rains and floods in the region – including in India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal and Afghanistan – also cause devastation and billions of dollars in damage every year.
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