巴基斯坦和阿富汗的恶劣天气导致数十人死亡

巴基斯坦和阿富汗的恶劣天气导致数十人死亡

Severe winter weather has claimed more lives as avalanches triggered by heavy snowfall killed 55 people in Pakistan-administered Kashmir while 15 died in neighboring Afghanistan, officials said Tuesday.

巴基斯坦官员周二表示，由于大雪引发的雪崩造成巴控克什米尔地区55人死亡，邻国阿富汗15人死亡，更多的人死于严寒天气。

The latest deaths raise the two countries’ overall death toll from the severe weather to 126 since Sunday.

最新的死亡人数使两国自周日以来因恶劣天气死亡的总人数上升到126人。

The disputed Himalayan region of Kashmir was the worst-affected area, with 55 deaths in the past 24 hours, said Waseem Uddin, a spokesman for Pakistan’s National Disaster Management Authority.

巴基斯坦国家灾害管理局发言人瓦西姆乌丁(Waseem Uddin)说，有争议的克什米尔地区是受影响最严重的地区，过去24小时内有55人死亡。

Earlier on Tuesday, Ahmad Raza Qadri, the minister for the disaster management authority in Kashmir, said they had declared a state of emergency in the affected areas. “Rescuers are facing difficulties in reaching the stricken villages,” he said,

周二早些时候，克什米尔灾害管理局部长艾哈迈德拉扎卡德里(Ahmad Raza Qadri)表示，他们已宣布受影响地区进入紧急状态。“救援人员在到达受灾村庄时面临困难。”他说，

Military helicopters were being used to evacuate people as authorities struggle to reopen highways and reach people cut off by heavy snowfall and avalanches in both Pakistan and Afghanistan.

在巴基斯坦和阿富汗，当局努力重新开放高速公路，并救助被大雪和雪崩切断联系的民众，军用直升机被用来疏散民众。

Also badly affected by heavy snowfall is Pakistan’s southwestern Baluchistan province, where 20 people died, said Uddin, adding that some parts in the province was under six inches of snow. Twelve people were also killed in weather-related incidents in Pakistan’s eastern Punjab province.

乌丁说，巴基斯坦西南部的俾路支省也受到大雪的严重影响，20人在那里丧生。他还说，该省一些地区的积雪厚度不足6英寸。在巴基斯坦东部旁遮普省，12人在与天气有关的事件中丧生。

In Afghanistan, the State Ministry for Disaster Management confirmed at least 15 more deaths overnight, raising the death toll in weather-related incidents since Sunday to 39.

在阿富汗，国家灾害管理部(State Ministry for Disaster Management)证实，夜间又有至少15人死亡，使自周日以来与天气有关的事故死亡人数增至39人。

So far, about 300 houses have been damaged across Afghanistan because of snowfall, floods and landslides, the agency said. On Monday, residents of the Afghan capital, Kabul, where temperatures dropped to -15 degrees Celsius (5 degrees Fahrenheit), abandoned driving and struggled to get to work on snow-covered roads.

该机构表示，到目前为止，由于降雪、洪水和山体滑坡，阿富汗各地约有300所房屋受损。周一，阿富汗首都喀布尔的气温降至零下15摄氏度(5华氏度)，居民们放弃了开车，在积雪覆盖的道路上艰难地去上班。