Local Taliban officials said six children were killed and seven others injured after the roofs of several houses collapsed in Nangarhar.
Quraishi Badloon, head of information at the Taliban Directorate of Information and Culture in Nangarhar, said three children were killed and three others injured early this morning in Pachir Wa Agam district.
The Taliban police command in Nangarhar told Radio Police that in Khogyani district, the roof of a house also collapsed, killing three children and injuring another.
Yesterday as well, the collapse of a house roof in Spin Ghar district left three people injured.
The cause of these incidents has not yet been determined.
In recent days, heavy rainfall and destructive floods across the country have killed 99 people and injured 154 others.
Substandard houses make people vulnerable to events such as earthquakes and floods, and can turn a relatively simple natural event into a tragic disaster.
Many houses in rural Afghanistan are poorly constructed and made of mud.
