Ankara-Sana
The number of flood victims in Turkey has risen to 40, as disaster and emergency teams continue to search and remove the effects of the devastation left by these floods in several states.
The Disaster and Emergency Management Authority of the Turkish regime announced this morning that 34 people in the state of Kastamonu and 6 people in the state of Sinop were killed as a result of the floods, while the search is still underway for a missing person in the state of Bartin, indicating that more than 1,700 people have been evacuated from the affected areas.
The floods caused chaos in the northern states on the Black Sea, destroying power infrastructure and leaving some 330 villages without power. Five bridges collapsed and many damaged, closing roads and washing away parts of others.
Television footage showed the floods dragging dozens of cars and piles of debris through the streets.
An earlier toll indicated that the death toll from floods and torrential rains caused by heavy rains in the Black Sea region in northern Turkey has reached 27.
Northern Turkey is exposed to torrential rains during the summer, when heavy rains fall in those areas.
Five people were killed in flash floods that swept the region last year.