KABUL, April 24, 2013 (AFP) - Eleven people are confirmed dead and three are missing after flash floods swept through part of northern Afghanistan, damaging almost a thousand homes, an official said Wednesday. The floods Tuesday hit the Kishindih, Sholgara and Nahri Shai districts of Balkh province, said Munir Ahmad Farhad, a provincial government spokesman. Eastern areas of the city of Mazar-e-Sharif were also hit but no one was hurt, Farhad told AFP. "The floods have also damaged close to a thousand homes as well as hundreds of hectares of farmland," the spokesman said. "We have sent delegations to the affected areas to assess the damage and casualties."
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