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Sharp Rise in Sale of Coffins After Kabul Bloody Incidents
Ariananews findings reveal that only three coffin sellers have sold around 320 coffins during the last two days in Kabul.
The coffin sellers in Kabul have declared that people mostly buy coffins and caskets for those who lost lives in suicide attacks or in war.
Death is now such a frequent occurrence in Kabul that coffin-making is one of the few thriving businesses.
“I sold around 120 to 200 coffins today. Sometimes it reaches up to 300 in one day,” Najibullah, a coffin seller in Kabul said.
The price of a coffin ranges from 1,000 to 4,000 Afghanis. The more expensive ones are studier as they tend to be for bodies that need to be transported to other provinces.
The demand for coffins reveals something about the nature of death in Afghanistan, for they are not typically used in Muslim funerals, where the dead are usually wrapped in a white funeral shroud and placed directly in the grave.
But when a body has been severely disfigured as a result of a bomb blast or an accident, simple wooden coffins are used.
In the meantime, a number of gravediggers and stone sellers also declared shocking statistics.
“I can say as the terrorist attacks increased, the grave digging and stone selling also had a sharp rise in Kabul. There are 10 to 12 gravediggers and stone sellers only in our area,” said Abdul Wadoud, a gravedigger said.
Violence has been especially focused on Kabul this month, as the insurgency targets the heart of the national government.
A suicide bombing killed more than 90 people and injured 158 others in the centre of the capital, Kabul yesterday.
Taliban have said they carried out the attack and it was intended as a message to U.S. President Donald Trump who last year sent more American troops to Afghanistan and ordered an increase in air strikes and other assistance to Afghan forces.
Iran executed four Afghan prisoners in Vakliabad Prison in Mashhad on Thursday morning, a human rights group reported.
Haalvsh said that the individuals had been arrested in 1398 over drug-related charges and then sentenced to death by the court.
This organization announced the names of the executed prisoners as Zaman Taheri, Salam Taheri, Gholam Qadir Samani and Ebrahim Noorzahi.
Zaman Taheri and Salam Taheri were brothers.
Iranian officials have not commented about the matter so far.
Two people were killed after roof of their house collapsed in southern Helmand province on Friday night, officials said.
Abdul Bari Rashid, head of information and culture in Helmand, told Ariana News that the incident occurred in Tajkan village of Gershak district due to heavy rain.
According to him, the dead include a woman and a child. A man was injured in the incident.
This comes as 10 people have died and six others have been injured as a result of the floods in Helmand province in the last one week.
Officials at the Ministry of Rural Rehabilitation and Development (MRRD) say 7,000 incomplete projects of the World Bank are at risk of destruction in Afghanistan. They call on the World Bank to resume the work of these projects.
According to them, discussions have been held with the World Bank about these projects, but there has been no result yet.
“7,000 incomplete projects are being destroyed, and if the work is not started, these projects will be destroyed. We ask the World Bank to resume the work of these projects as soon as possible,” said Noorul Hadi Adel, the spokesperson of MRRD.
Meanwhile, members of the private sector also ask international institutions to resume their work in Afghanistan.
According to the officials of this sector, with the start of these projects, job opportunities will be provided for thousands of people in the country.
“These projects create employment for our people and the country will grow a lot,” said Mirwais Hajizadeh, a member of the private sector.
However, economic experts stated if the work of these projects does not start soon, they will be destroyed and the investments made in them will be wasted.
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