"Second Flood" in Turkey Bashny.Net

Turkey has passed the strongest rains over the past 80 years!
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Turkish media prefer to call this tragedy "second Flood».

Wednesday torrents flooded suburbs of Istanbul and the streets of the city, taking with them dozens of cars and threatening the lives of hundreds of thousands of people. The situation is complicated by the fact that the flood occurred in the morning hours, when people walked or drove to work. As a result, the flow of water caught the residents in the streets of Turkish cities.

In Ikitelli, a suburb of Istanbul, on September 9, the water level reached 3 m. People had to climb on the roof of the car while waiting for rescuers. Mudslides have washed away the main highway leading to Greece and the international airport Ataturk. At the same time the airport management has stated that none of the flights have not been canceled.

Rescuers found four bodies at a truck stop at a highway in Ikitelli. Seven bodies were found at a gas station in the Istanbul suburb of Khankala, where dozens of people were rescued from the water flow on the roofs of their cars. In the same suburb rescuers found seven bodies in the building of a textile factory. All the victims worked at the plant. A total of 9 September from stormwater flows killed 17 people, the newspaper Hurriyet.

While there is no official information on the exact number of victims, however, estimated that for the last two days by the floods in Turkey, killing about 30 people.

On the first victims of the floods it became known on September 7. The county Saray Tekirdag province in a house, rescuers found the bodies of a mother and three daughters (one of them was six years old). Father's family claimed the alleged flow of water, and he is considered to be missing, reports Associated Press.

In the same district killed an elderly couple, which collapsed the roof of their own home. Also reported several casualties in the town of Silivri (located 65 km from Istanbul). One of the residents Silivri died of a heart attack when I saw the water close to his home. Rescuers also failed to help the boy stuck in a car with her mother and sister. The girl took the flow of water, and the remaining people in the car drowned.

This victim, reported Turkish media. How many people actually died or were missing, while not known for certain.

Torrential rains in the vicinity of Istanbul do not stop from Monday, and meteorologists warned that the rains will continue for several days.

In the vicinity of Istanbul are flooded many homes and even cottage towns. In the flooded Istanbul's main street, which connects the city with the airport and the industrial zone.

Istanbul Governor Muammer Guler, the province was made live on television. He said that every effort is made to rescue people from floods that have been allocated for this purpose all necessary means. The rescue operations involved civil defense units and helicopters. Rescuers and the authorities advise people not to leave their homes and not to use the main roads.

His assistant, Himet Kakmak already described the situation "a disaster" and Turkish meteorologists joined him, saying that such heavy rainfall has not been in Turkey for the past 80 years. Turkish media prefer to call this tragedy "second Flood."

According to the UN, on the floods in West Africa, where from early June rains have affected 600 thousand. Man.

Stormwater flows have claimed 159 lives in 16 countries, destroyed homes, washed away roads, forced hundreds of thousands to flee their homes. Over half a million people homeless. Most of all suffered from showers Sierra Leoneans: they killed 103 people who were washed away or buried under the rubble of stones.

Humanitarian organizations are doing everything possible to prevent the outbreak and spread of infectious diseases, and to support the affected people drinking water and food.

From raging elements affected and the countries of Latin America. In Argentina, the tornado killed nine people, destroyed dozens of homes and broken power lines. In the Brazilian city of Guarasiaba killed 4 people, destroyed about 2, 5 thousand. Buildings.