7 killed, 59 injured in flash floods, storms in Iran

TEHRAN: At least seven people were killed and 59 others injured in storms and flash floods in five Iranian provinces over the past two days, IRIB news agency reported Friday.

Among the four people killed in Isfahan were three by flooding in Nohuj village in Ardestan County on Thursday and a driver on an intercity road, whose car was washed away by the deluge, the semi-official Mehr news agency quoted Isfahan Disaster Mitigation and Management Organization as saying.

One person was killed by a landslide on a road from Tehran to Mazandaran Province, the semi-official Fars news agency quoted Mazandaran’s traffic police as saying.

Flooding also killed a child in East Azarbaijan Province, the deputy for rescue and relief operations of the Iranian Red Crescent Society told the official news agency IRNA.

Neither the Iranian media nor the National Medical Emergency Organization provided any detail about the seventh fatality.

A total of 27 people in the capital Tehran were wounded by a strong gale that came on Thursday evening, IRIB quoted the National Medical Emergency Organization as announcing.

In addition, the flash floods and storms wounded 15 in the central province of Isfahan, 10 in the northern province of Alborz, five in the northern province of Mazandaran, and two in the northwestern province of East Azarbaijan, the report said.

-Xinhua