Go deeper:- Mohammad Ibrahim (pseudonym), a resident of Herat city, told Reporterly that over the last two weeks, Herat has witnessed some of its coldest days and the water supply to most of the houses has been cut off.- Ibrahim said that once the Taliban became aware of this, its fighters attacked the mentioned baths and beat up men, women and children and arrested the owners of several baths along with local elders.- Another resident of Herat told Reporterly, “For more than a few days, the weather has been cold, sometimes reaching minus 30 degrees, and the taps and water tanks have completely frozen, and we have to get drinking water from far away areas with barrels.There is no water for taking a bath in most houses and hence, these services are of utmost importance.”- Two months ago, the Taliban had shut down operations of women’s public baths in most Afghan cities and imposed restrictions on men’s baths and saunas.- The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA) had said that bitterly cold weather in Afghanistan has reportedly killed thousands of livestock across the eastern, western and northern regions."