DHAKA: Flash flooding in the remote northern Afghan province of Baghlan has killed at least 73 people and forced thousands to abandon their homes.

Police say, reports the BBC.

The flooding has been deadliest in the Guzargah-e-Nur district of the province 140km north of the provincial capital Puli Khumri.

Police say the dead include women and children. About 200 people are missing.

Some 2,000 homes have been destroyed and roads washed away in what a local official said it was a ‘huge disaster’.

Northern Afghanistan has been hit by a series of floods in recent weeks, which have affected tens of thousands of people.

Flooding and landslides happen annually during the spring-summer rainy season in the north of the country, where flimsy mud houses offering scant shelter against rising water levels and volumes of mud.

BDST: 1929 HRS, JUNE 07, 2014