Friday, September 25, 2009 ANKARA: The death toll from floods triggered by torrential rains in a Black Sea coastal province in northeast Turkey rose to five, a local news agency reported. Turkish Environment and Forestry Minister Veysel Eroglu was quoted by the report as saying that the death toll increased to five. The news agency reported earlier in the day that floods killed four people after a building on a stream bed collapsed in the Borcka town of the Artvin province late Wednesday. "Four people were killed in flooding. One person went missing. We assume that person is dead too. So, we can say death toll rose to five," Eroglu was quoted as saying. On Thursday morning, search and rescue teams recovered two bodies from the rubble of the three-story house that was wrecked by a landslide caused by the rains and floods in Borcka. The bodies of a 54-year-old woman and a 17-year-old girl were recovered from the rubble of the three-story house, the report said. Two other people died in floods in the Borcka town and a three-year-old baby was pulled out alive from the debris of another house wrecked by the landslide, according to the report. Earlier this month, flash floods triggered by heavy rains killed 37 in northwest Turkey's Istanbul and Tekirdag provinces.
Friday, September 25, 2009 ANKARA: The death toll from floods triggered by torrential rains in a Black Sea coastal province in northeast Turkey rose to five, a local news agency reported. Turkish Environment and Forestry Minister Veysel Eroglu was quoted by the report as saying that the death toll increased to five. The news agency reported earlier in the day that floods killed four people after a building on a stream bed collapsed in the Borcka town of the Artvin province late Wednesday. "Four people were killed in flooding. One person went missing. We assume that person is dead too. So, we can say death toll rose to five," Eroglu was quoted as saying. On Thursday morning, search and rescue teams recovered two bodies from the rubble of the three-story house that was wrecked by a landslide caused by the rains and floods in Borcka. The bodies of a 54-year-old woman and a 17-year-old girl were recovered from the rubble of the three-story house, the report said. Two other people died in floods in the Borcka town and a three-year-old baby was pulled out alive from the debris of another house wrecked by the landslide, according to the report. Earlier this month, flash floods triggered by heavy rains killed 37 in northwest Turkey's Istanbul and Tekirdag provinces.
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