The UAE has expressed its solidarity with Afghanistan and Pakistan after floods killed 45 people and injured dozens more in the two countries.
Heavy rain which lashed the countries over recent days caused flash floods, landslides and buildings to collapse.
The extreme weather had caused 45 deaths and 74 injuries across a number of areas of Afghanistan and Pakistan, authorities said on Monday.
Most of the deaths in Afghanistan were recorded in central and eastern provinces, where 130 homes were destroyed.
In Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, which shares a border with Afghanistan, at least 17 people were killed, the majority of them children.
The UN lists both Pakistan and Afghanistan as being particularly vulnerable to periods of extreme weather and climate change.
The UAE's Ministry of Foreign Affairs offered sincere condolences and sympathy to the victims and wished for the speedy recovery of those injured in messages to both Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Embattled communities in Afghanistan have been hit hard by a series of natural disasters in recent years.
Flash floods caused by heavy rain in the north of Afghanistan killed more than 300 people in May 2024, the UN and Taliban authorities said.
Thousands of houses were destroyed or damaged in Baghlan province, when heavy rains led to major flooding, the UN's International Organisation for Migration said.
A powerful earthquake in eastern Afghanistan in September 2025 killed at least 800 people and injured more than 2,800.
The 6.0-magnitude earthquake hit about 27km from Jalalabad, the country's fifth-largest city, destroying villages in the districts of Nur Gul, Soki, Watpur, Manogi and Chapadare.
A 6.3-magnitude struck Afghanistan in October 2023. The Taliban authorities said at least 4,000 people died, while the UN gave a death toll of about 1,500
A fierce monsoon season last year left a trail of destruction in Pakistan, killing almost 1,000 people and destroying crops, livestock and homes.
