Tehran: Flash floods have injured 20 people in northern Iran, after what officials described as the region’s heaviest rains in a century, Iranian media reported.
The rains have battered the cities of Astara and Talesh, on the Caspian Sea coast near the border with Azerbaijan since Sunday, the reports said.
“Heavy rains ... have fallen over Astara which have not been seen in 100 years,” Gilan province’s head of crisis management Amir Moradi told the ISNA news agency on Monday.
Twenty people have been injured, the Mehr news agency reported.
State news agency IRNA quoted officials as saying that more flooding was expected on Tuesday in Gilan province and western districts of neighboring Mazandaran.
The floodwaters brought down one bridge in Astara and heavily damaged another, the Tasnim news agency reported.
It shared images of emergency teams helping motorists to escape from vehicles that had been partially submerged by the water.
The river systems that flow from Iran’s extensive mountain ranges make it vulnerable to flash flooding.
Last year, floods hit 21 out of Iran’s 31 provinces killing at least 96 people, authorities said.
Heaviest rains in century bring floods to Caspian Sea coast: Iran media
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Heaviest rains in century bring floods to Caspian Sea coast: Iran media
- Twenty people have been injured, the Mehr news agency reported
- The river systems that flow from Iran’s extensive mountain ranges make it vulnerable to flash flooding
Syrian authorities repair Deir Ezzor airport runway to prepare for resuming flights
- Airport has been out of service for more than a decade because of civil war
LONDON: Syrian authorities are repairing key infrastructure at Deir Ezzor Civil Airport ahead of flights being resumed. Government forces have been in control of northeastern Syria since January.
Syria’s General Authority of Civil Aviation and Air Transport announced on Monday that technical and engineering teams are repairing the runway, essential facilities, and rebuilding the airport’s perimeter fence to meet international safety and security standards.
The airport has been out of service for more than a decade due to the civil war in the country, which damaged infrastructure, including several bridges in northeastern Syria, where towns are next to the Euphrates River.
The Syrian government regained control over the region from the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces through an agreement in January that established a ceasefire and outlined a phased integration of military and administrative structures.
On Sunday, Syrian authorities took over security responsibilities at Qamishli airport in Hasaka Province, northeastern Syria, as part of the agreement with the SDF.
