Iran’s aid shipment for flood victims arrives in Nangarhar

JALALABAD: Iran’s aid shipments have reached on Saturday, to the flood-affected families in Jalalabad city the capital of Nangarhar, the governor’s press office said in a statement.
According to the statement, the aids was handed over by Behram Jamali, the deputy consul of Iran in Jalalabad, to Mawlavi Saeed Ahmad Benuri, deputy governor of Nangarhar province.
The aids includes one thousand bags of flour, one thousand five-liter cans of cooking oil and one thousand ten-kilogram bags of rice, said the statement.
The deputy governor of Nangarhar expressed gratitude for this humanitarian aid from Iran, a friendly, Muslim, and the neighboring country of Afghanistan, which was provided in these difficult circumstances.
Behram Jamali, the deputy consul of Iran in Nangarhar province, said that the government and people of his country are saddened by the recent natural disasters in Afghanistan.
Recent heavy rains, storms, and floods in Nangarhar province, inflicted heavy human and financial losses to the people in the province.