ANKARA, Turkey — Flash flooding caused by torrential rains has killed nine people, including at least four children, in northern Turkey, authorities said Wednesday.
The state-run Anadolu agency reported that the
downpours caused a river to burst its banks late Tuesday, inundating
homes and shops and stranding cars in the Black Sea port city of Samsun
Two
brothers, aged 1 and 5 years old, and a father and his two sons, aged 9
and 16, drowned when the flood hit their homes, it said.
The
country’s emergency management authority said in a statement that at
least nine people were killed and another one was missing in Samsun. It
said 21 people were injured.
In 2010, 12 people were killed in a major landslide and flood in the tea-growing Black Sea province of Rize.