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Kabul (ANTARA News / Reuters) - Floods caused by torrential rains have killed nearly 80 people in Afghanistan in the past week, a senior official said Thursday.

According to the head of disaster management, severe floods have damaged or destroyed more than 2,000 homes are built with the poor in poor countries vulnerable to natural disasters, including floods and earthquakes, it was.

"We and the United Nations has mobilized a number of teams through the air and ground to help people affected by flooding and without food aid," explained Abdul Mateen Edrak told Reuters.

Province of Herat, Ghor and Badghis in western Afghanistan is the worst hit areas, said Edrak.

Hundreds of hectares of farmland were also destroyed by floods, and rain is expected to continue in some parts of the country for at least two more days.