Local Taliban officials in Nangarhar say that a 13 year old child drowned and died while swimming in the Kabul River in Behsud district of the province.

Quraishi Badloon, head of information at the Taliban’s Directorate of Information and Culture in Nangarhar, said the incident occurred on Sunday (12 April) in the “Bili” area of Behsud district.

According to him, the body of the child has not yet been recovered, and efforts to search for and retrieve it from the water are ongoing.

He added that the child was originally from Kunar province and had recently settled in the district with his family after being deported from Pakistan.

It is worth noting that similar incidents are reported every year during the spring and summer in different provinces of the country, with a large number of cases occurring in eastern provinces such as Nangarhar and Kunar.