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Unprecedented Floods in Iran Kill at least 18 in Shiraz

by Zamaneh Media
March 26, 2019
in Featured Items, Latest News
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Unprecedented Floods in Iran Kill at least 18 in Shiraz

“At least 25 people were killed in the recent flash floods in Iran.” Ahmad Shojai, Iran’s chief state coroner announced. According to Shojai, 18 people were killed in southern city of Shiraz and all the victims have been identified. At least 2 people were killed in the northern province of Golestan and 5 people were killed in Mazandaran.

Damaged vehicles after a flash flood in Shiraz

Some 26 provinces out of 31 now have flood warnings due to torrential rain in a country more accustomed to drought. State TV said villages near rivers and dams in several provinces had been evacuated for fear of the rising water.

Authorities had warned about possibility of floods in the capital Tehran as well as in the oil-rich southern province of Khuzestan in the next 48 hours. Both are now witnessing floods.

The spread of flooding to the south follows days of floods since March 19 that affected more than 56,000 people living in 270 villages and small towns in the northern provinces of Golestan and Mazandaran, on the Caspian Sea, TV reported.

Iranian media showed pictures and footage of crumpled cars piled up deep in mud and water after floods swept through Shiraz.

Last year, at least 30 people were killed by flash flood in the Iranian province of Eastern Azarbaijan.

“The unprecedented flooding in Iran is a side-effect of global warming”, Ardalan Tootchi, a fluid-dynamics researcher in Paris 6 University told Zamaneh Farsi. However, he warned that the mismanagement of water resources and dam-building projects have contributed to the recent tragedy.

Source: Reuters, ISNA, Zamaneh

Tags: Ardalan TootchifloodIRanIranian environmentShiraz

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