A state of emergency has been declared in the regions where rivers of mud have suddenly “swallowed up” thousands of homes and acres of farmland, the Afghan defense ministry said. “More than 100 people died in the district of Baghlan Jadid” in Baghlan province and “100 people were killed” in Burka district, an official from the International Organization for Migration (IOM) told AFP, estimating that more than 2,000 homes had been destroyed. The IOM added that dozens more deaths had been recorded across six other districts of Baghlan, according to figures provided by the country’s National Disaster Management Authority (ANDMA). Provincial authorities had earlier reported 62 dead since Friday, but warned that the toll was “likely to rise”. This spring’s unusually heavy rains have also battered other provinces in Afghanistan, one of the countries most vulnerable to climate change in the world but also one of the least prepared for its consequences, according to scientists. Government spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid told AFP on Saturday that there had been “dozens of deaths” across several provinces of the country, one of the world’s poorest. The defense ministry said Sunday that “food, medicine and first aid kits have been distributed to the victims”. “The air force has begun evacuating residents as the weather improves” and has transferred more than a hundred injured people to hospitals, it added. Jan Mohammad Din Mohammad, a resident of Pol-e Khomri, the provincial capital of Baghlan, told AFP that the house he built with his own hands had been completely destroyed. “I saw my family running towards the hills. My house and my entire life have been taken away. It was unimaginable,” he said. In neighboring Takhar province, disaster management officials reported 20 dead and 14 injured on Friday. “In addition to the human losses, these floods have caused huge financial losses,” an official from the department told AFP. The US envoy to Afghanistan, Rina Amiri, wrote on social media that her “heart breaks for the victims of the devastating floods in Afghanistan, which have claimed many lives and caused significant damage”. She called on the Taliban government “to address the devastation caused by climate change” in a country already battered by four decades of war. Since mid-April, flash floods and heavy rains have killed around 100 people in 10 provinces of the country, sparing no region. They have also destroyed hundreds of homes and submerged vast swathes of agricultural land in a country where some 80 percent of the population of more than 40 million depend on farming for their survival. Afghanistan suffered from a very dry winter, which made it harder for the soil to absorb the rain. Read Also: Há já mais de 50 mortos nas cheias repentinas no norte do Afeganistão (Portuguese version)