The Taliban’s ministry for refugees said on Sunday the death toll from flooding in northern Afghanistan was 315, with more than 1,600 people injured.
The toll was announced on Sunday, a day after the UN’s World Food Programme (WFP) said over 300 people were killed and many others remained missing, with authorities scrambling to rescue the injured.
The number of dead is rising quickly, as the Taliban’s Ministry of Interior Affairs had said earlier Saturday that some 150 people were killed in the floods.
WFP said the worst-hit province was Baghlan, where more than 1,000 homes have been destroyed.
The UN agency said it was distributing fortified biscuits to the survivors of one of the many floods that hit the country over the past few weeks.