Heavy snowfall in Afghanistan has claimed at least 61 lives.
According to reports, 110 people got injured and 458 houses were either partially or fully destroyed.
A total of 360 families were affected.
The casualties happened between Wednesday and Friday mainly in central and northern provinces of the country.
According to United Nations, around half of Afghanistan’s population of more than 40 million people will need humanitarian assistance this year.
Afghanistan is confronting an escalating humanitarian emergency as freezing winter conditions, widespread food insecurity and sharp reductions in international aid leave millions struggling to survive, aid agencies have warned.
Families across the country are living in makeshift shelters, burning scraps of wood and rubbish to stay warm and scavenging for food amid soaring prices and limited work opportunities, according to United Nations assessments.
More than 17 million people in Afghanistan are now facing acute food insecurity this winter (up by about three million from last year) and nearly 4.7 million could reach emergency levels of hunger, the World Food Programme (WFP) has said.
WFP estimates that around 4.9 million mothers and children in Afghanistan will need treatment for malnutrition by March 2026, and that nearly one in five people in the country face extreme hunger due to the confluence of drought, displacement and economic decline.
