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Three Children Drown in Eastern Afghanistan Amid Surge in Incidents

Summary by kabulnow.com
KABUL, AFGHANISTAN – Three children drowned on Friday while swimming in the Kabul River in Jalalabad, the capital of eastern Nangarhar province, local Taliban authorities said, as drowning cases surge across Afghanistan during the hot summer months. Sayed Tayyab Hamad, spokesperson for the Taliban police command in Nangarhar, identified the victims as two brothers and their cousin. The children were swimming near the Behsoud bridge in the city’s…
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Local Taliban officials in Nangarhar say three children have drowned while swimming in the provincial capital. Sayed Tayyib Hamad, spokesman for the Taliban’s Nangarhar security command, said the children were swimming in the Kabul River near the Behsud Bridge in the first district of Jalalabad city this afternoon (Friday, June 15). Hamad added that two of the children were brothers and the other was their cousin. Their bodies have not been foun…

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روزنامه اطلاعات روز broke the news on Friday, June 5, 2026.
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