At least 18 people have died, including four children, and more than 90 further injured, after heavy rains caused severe flooding and triggered landslides across southern Fars province of Iran.
Rescue agencies and aid workers have been helping the displaced families who evacuated for fear of the rising water nearing rivers and dams in several province, while being warned of possible floods in capital Tehran in the next couple days.
In recent days, the spread of muddy water flows to the south following days of floods since March 19, which affected more than 56,000 people being sheltered in 270 villages and small towns in the northern provinces of Golestan and Mazandaran, on the Caspian Sea, according to a local TV report.
Independent social media outlet, in tweet showed pictures and footage of crumpled cars piled up deep in mud and water after floods swept through Shiraz.
“Footage of today’s devastating floods in Shiraz, south-central #Iran People complain about the authorities’ slow response to destructive floods,” Iran HRM said in a tweet.
Footage of today's devastating floods in Shiraz, south-central #Iran
People complain about the authorities' slow response to destructive floods #40YearsOfFailure #سيل pic.twitter.com/GpE9qV07aL— IRAN HRM (@IranHrm) March 25, 2019
Meanwhile, Fars Governor Enayatollah Rahimi told state TV the flooding was under control and rescue teams had been dispatched to the flood-hit areas, with aim to reach out victims and provide basic aids to the people in need.
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