Floods Kill At Least 14 in Quake Hit Turkey

At least t least 14 people have died and several others are missing after floods swept through the streets of two earthquake devastated cities in south-east Turkey, reported BBC. This region is still struggling to recover from the effects of the devastating earthquakes of February 6.

Most victims were quake survivors surviving in container homes since the quakes. As per reports cars were washed away in the torrent of floodwater flowing through the streets of Sanliurfa, where 12 people died. A container housing two families in Adiyaman was swept away by the flood waters. Several others in the city were reported missing. Tents in the city were evacuated.

The latest floods hit Turkey only five weeks after the twin earthquakes on 6 February in which 48,000 people were killed and many more left homeless.

Search and rescue organisation Afad said that in one 24-hour period, 136mm (5.4in) of rain had fallen in one area of Adiyaman province and 111mm (4.4in) in Sanliurfa, which saw a third of its annual rainfall in the past two days.

The governor of Sanliurfa, Salih Ayhan, said his province had never seen flooding like it before.