Heavy rain in eastern Afghanistan’s Nangarhar province turned deadly for several families on Monday night.
Misryoum newsroom reported that at least five people were killed and four others injured when the roofs of mud-brick houses collapsed under heavy rainfall in Nangarhar. The provincial government office said the incident happened on Tuesday, and it wasn’t just one house—several homes around the area were affected.
The collapses took place on the outskirts of the Sherzad, Khogyani, and Haska Meyna districts. According to the statement, intense downpours in those areas triggered the roofs to give way. The injured were moved to nearby health centers for treatment, where they were being handled after the rubble settled. In the middle of it all, you could almost picture the sound—mud cracking, then that awkward, hollow silence when people realize something’s gone wrong.
Residential houses in Afghanistan’s remote areas are predominantly built from mud, and that design choice—or lack of a better one—keeps showing up in disasters like this. During adverse weather conditions, mud structures can fail, leading to severe human casualties and significant property damage. It feels grimly familiar: rain comes in hard, roofs sag, walls don’t hold.
Misryoum editorial desk noted that rainstorms, landslides, and flash floods have killed nearly 110 people and injured 160 others across Afghanistan over the past 11 days. That broader toll is what makes this particular Nangarhar incident even harder to separate from the pattern forming across the country. Sometimes one report lands, and then another follows soon after, almost like the weather is keeping count.
The province doesn’t just suffer once, either. Over and over, the same vulnerabilities—how homes are built, how quickly water runs, how saturated ground becomes—seem to turn bad conditions into catastrophe. And even with injuries transferred to health centers, the damage can’t be rushed back into place. Actually… it can’t be rushed at all, not when the rainfall is still hanging in the air and people are still looking for what’s missing.
