FOUR people were been killed after an avalanche hit a village in Arghanjkhwa district of Afghanistan’s northern Badakhshan province, Qari Maazudin Ahmadi, head of information and culture for Badakhshan province said today.

The incident which took place in Tak Archa village late yesterday, the official told reporters without providing more details, Xinhua reported.

A similar incident claimed four lives and destroyed 30 houses in Kofab district of the province last week.

Avalanches have killed more than three dozen lives and destroyed scores of residential houses in the mountainous Badakhshan province over the past weeks.

Heavy snowfall, freezing weather, flooding and avalanches have killed nearly 200 people, including women and children, across Afghanistan over the past month. – Bernama, February 25, 2023.