More than 30 people have died as a result of flash floods across Afghanistan, including in the capital Kabul. Many of the victims were killed by their homes collapsing in on them. Flooding caused by heavy seasonal rains in Afghanistan has killed more than 30 people, a Taliban spokesperson said on Sunday. Flash floods were first reported on Friday, causing "high human and financial losses," Taliban spokesperson Abdullah Janan Saiq of the State Ministry for Natural Disaster Management said. He added that "unfortunately 33 people died and 27 people were injured due to the flooding." Rains expected to continue Some 600 houses and more than 85 kilometers (53 miles) of roads were damaged or destroyed, along with around 2,000 hectares of farmland, Saiq said. Most of the victims were killed by their houses collapsing on them. Of Afghanistan's 34 provinces, 20 were affected by the heavy rains, including the capital Kabul. The rainy season followed an unusually dry winter season which can often make flooding worse. Many farmers had already had to delay sowing their crops due to the drought. More rain has been forecast for the coming week, especially in the Kabul province. The Taliban took back control of Afghanistan in 2021. Since then, foreign aid has been drastically reduced, including relief for natural disasters.

At least Five people were killed when the anchor rope of a passenger launch severed and hit them at Sadarghat terminal in the capital. The incident took place on Thursday afternoon (April 11) at around 3:15 pm. Joynul Abedin, director of Bangladesh Inland Water Transport Authority (BIWTA) confirmed the matter. The deceased include a woman, three men and a child. According to sources, five passengers were seriously injured after the anchor of Tasrif 4 broke into pieces and hit some of the people around, injuring them. Five of them died.  

The soldiers were part of a southern African peacekeeping mission sent to help government forces in the Democratic Republic of Congo fight M23 rebels. Mortar fire in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) killed three Tanzanian soldiers who were part of a Southern African peacekeeping mission sent to help government forces fight M23 rebels, the Southern African Development Community (SADC) said on Monday. "This unfortunate incident happened after a hostile mortar round had fallen near the camp they were staying at," the 16-member bloc said in a statement. Three other Tanzanian soldiers were wounded, it added. The statement added that another South African soldier on the SADC mission had died while receiving treatment for unspecified health problems at a hospital in the provincial capital, Goma. It was not clear if that death was related to the mortar round. The force includes soldiers from regional military heavyweights South Africa, Tanzania and Malawi.  The SADC mission suffered its first losses in mid-February, when two South African soldiers were killed and three wounded by a mortar bomb. What is the SADC mission doing in DRC? After several years of dormancy, the predominantly Tutsi M23 (March 23 Movement) group took up arms again in late 2021. It has seized large swaths of DR Congo's North Kivu province, which has been wracked by violence in the decades since regional wars in the 1990s. The Democratic Republic of Congo, the United Nations and Western countries accuse Rwanda of supporting the rebels in a bid to control the region's vast mineral wealth, a charge Rwanda denies. The regional bloc SADC sent soldiers to North Kivu province in December to help the government tackle instability and armed groups in the restive eastern region. The SADC mission was to take over from an East African peacekeeping force, whose mandate was ended by the DRC, which accused it of colluding with the rebels instead of fighting them. Meanwhile, the UN mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (MONUSCO) is also winding down. The 15,000 UN troops began leaving in February at the request of the DRC government, which considers them ineffective.  

Two people were died in a collision between running train and a truck in Purbo Fazilpur Muhuriganj Bridge in Feni. The accident took place on Friday (April 5) morning. Gateman Md Saiful went missing soon after the accident. Among the deceased, one was the driver and the other was helper of the truck. Police and witnesses said the accident happened around 8:30 at the rail gate adjacent to the East Fazilpur Muhuriganj Bridge in Feni Sadar Upazila. The Chattogram-bound mail train hit the truck while crossing the trail track as the gateman failed to place the bar despite the arrival of the train. Later, the railway authorities removed the truck and the bodies lying on the railway track. 

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that Israeli forces “unintentionally struck innocent people in the Gaza Strip” in comments on Tuesday. “Unfortunately, in the last day, there was a tragic incident where our forces unintentionally struck innocent people in the Gaza Strip. It happens in war, and we are thoroughly investigating it. We are in contact with the governments and will do everything to prevent such occurrences in the future,” Netanyahu said. Netanyahu’s remarks came after at least seven World Central Kitchen (WCK) aid workers were killed in Gaza. The Israel Defense Forces earlier on Tuesday said they were investigating the strike “at the highest levels.” In the same statement, Netanyahu said he is being released from the hospital after undergoing surgery to treat a hernia this weekend. Source: CNN  

A convoy of Chinese engineers was targeted by an attacker driving an explosive-laden vehicle, according to local authorities of Pakistan. Authorities in Pakistan said on Tuesday that five Chinese nationals were among six people killed in a suicide attack in the northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. Regional police chief Mohammad Ali Gandapur said a convoy carrying Chinese engineers was targeted by a suicide bomber who rammed an explosive-laden vehicle into them. "Five Chinese nationals and their Pakistani driver were killed in the attack," Gandapur told news agencies. What we know about the attack The senior police official said the victims had been traveling from Islamabad to their camp in Dasu in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province — which is the site of the Dasu hydroelectric dam, currently being constructed by the China Gezhouba Group Company. The attack took place along a winding, mountainous road that runs alongside a deep ravine. Previously in 2021, a bus transporting engineers to the same site was targeted in an attack that killed 13 people, including nine Chinese nationals. China has invested heavily into Pakistan's infrastructure over the past few years as part of the . The Chinese projects have led to a level of resentment in some local quarters, with separatist groups claiming those from the region benefit little, with most jobs going to outsiders. No group has claimed responsibility for the attack, but Islamist militants linked to the Pakistani Taliban have previously targeted Chinese interests in Pakistan.   

The Taliban government says Pakistani airstrikes hit civilian homes, two days after insurgents killed seven Pakistani soldiers in a suicide bombing. A Taliban government spokesperson said on Monday that Pakistani airstrikes killed at least eight people, including three children, in border regions of Afghanistan. Zabihullah Mujahid, a Taliban spokesperson, said Pakistani aircraft struck civilian homes in Khost and Paktika provinces near the border with Pakistan at around 3:00 a.m. local time (2230 GMT).  According to Mujahid, all eight people killed were women and children. Exchange of fire The airstrikes targeted multiple suspected hideouts of Pakistani Taliban inside Afghanistan, two Pakistan security officials told AP. The Pakistani Taliban is a separate militant group but allied with the Afghan Taliban. Mujahid condemned the airstrikes and warned that such a "violation of Afghanistan's sovereignty" would bring "bad consequences" beyond its neighbor's control. In a separate statement, the Taliban's Defense Ministry said its security forces had targeted Pakistani troops on the border with heavy weapons later Monday in response to the airstrikes. The Associated Press (AP) news agency reported, citing Pakistani officials, that  Afghan Taliban's shots wounded four people and that some villagers in the northwestern Kurram district were moving to safer areas.  The officials added that Pakistan fired back, according to the AP report.  This is the latest escalation as tensions between Islamabad and Kabul simmer. Pakistan president promised retaliation Monday's escalation came two days after a suicide bombing targeted a Pakistan army post near the Afghan border. On Saturday, a suicide bomber had rammed a truck filled with explosives into a military checkpoint in northwest Pakistan, killing seven soldiers. During the funeral of the soldiers, Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari promised a strong response. "The blood of our martyred soldiers will not go in vain," Zardari said. Saturday's suicide attack was claimed by the Jaish-e-Fursan-e-Muhammad group, though security officials in Pakistan believe that the organization largely consists of members from the banned Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan, or TTP. 'Pakistan shouldn't blame Afghanistan' Both neighbors have been sparring over recent militant activity in Pakistan. Islamabad claims these attacks originated in Afghan territory, a claim that Afghanistan's ruling Taliban has denied. "Pakistan shouldn't blame Afghanistan for the lack of control, incompetence and problems in its own territory," Mujahid said in the Taliban statement. A Pakistani official in the border regions said in light of recent developments, "announcements have been made in mosques to empty some areas in Kurram and North Waziristan as clashes between Pakistan and Afghanistan continue on and off at the border."

Five people have been killed in a head-on collision between a pickup truck and a mini truck (Leguna) at ‎Jaintiapur in Sylhet. The accident took place on Sylhet-Tamabil highway on Monday (March 18) afternoon.  The deceased were identified as Mangali Patra (55), Sabitri Patra (35), Suchita Patra (35), Ritu Patra (8) and six-month-old Bijli who is the daughter of Suchita Patra.  According to the locals, the pickup van coming from the opposite direction collided head-on with the Leguna in front of the Rural Electrification Office.  Ten members of the same family, including women and children, were injured. The injured were taken to Sylhet MAG Osmani Medical College Hospital (SOMCH) where doctors declared three of them dead.  Later, two more died while undergoing treatment at the hospital.

A vehicle containing explosives rammed into the military post in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, near the Afghan border. At least seven soldiers have been killed in Pakistan after militants attacked a military post in North Waziristan, a district in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province that borders Afghanistan. "The terrorists rammed an explosive-laden vehicle into the post, followed by multiple suicide bombing attacks, which led to [the] collapse of [a] portion of a building," the statement said. Five soldiers were killed in the initial blast and another two in the ensuing gun battle. The military said six attackers, some wearing bomb vests, were also killed in the firefight. A newly formed militant group, Jaish-e-Fursan-e Muhammad, claimed responsibility for the attack. Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari and Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif condemned the attack and paid tribute to the troops who were "martyred." Attacks by militant groups in its border regions with Afghanistan have been on the rise, ever since the Islamist militant group Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) withdrew from a cease-fire in 2022. Islamabad many of the attacks were launched from Afghanistan. The Taliban in Afghanistan has repeatedly denied this.

At least 46 people have been killed in a massive fire that broke out at a multi-storey commercial building on Bailey Road in the capital. A teacher and 12 students were reported dead. The fire broke out at a multi-storey building on Bailey Road in the capital around 9:50pm on Thursday ( Feb 29 ). So far 46 people have died.  In addition, at least 22 people were seriously burnt. It is feared that the death toll may increase further as none of them is out of danger.