Amid expectations of continued rains, the number of dead and missing in Iran's floods rises

The authorities in Iran announced that the death toll from floods and torrents had risen to about 20, while dozens were considered missing, as a result of the floods and torrential rains caused by heavy rain yesterday.

The governor of Tehran, Mohsen Mansouri, reported that the deaths had risen to 9, while 12 were injured, and 16 people were considered missing in the city of Firuzkoh, east of the Iranian capital. The governor added that rescue operations were delayed due to road closures.

Also in Tehran, the Iranian Red Crescent said that the death toll had risen to 11 in the flood that hit the Imamzadeh Daoud area at dawn on Thursday, while 19 others were considered missing, with search and rescue operations continuing.

The director of the Iranian Red Crescent Society, Pir Hussein Koliwand, explained that the heavy rains that fell from Wednesday night led to a landslide in the village, located in a mountainous area, about 50 km from Tehran, and is a tourist destination, and indicated that the muddy torrents caused the detention of a number of cars. .

Pictures distributed by the Red Crescent Society on Thursday showed rescue workers searching for the missing and helping the affected people in muddy neighborhoods, using sticks, shovels and other equipment.

Interior Minister Ahmad Vahidi, who arrived in the stricken area, confirmed that the search for missing persons continues in Tehran Province, and indicated that the quantities of mud that invaded the village of Imamzadeh Daoud sometimes reached a height of 4 meters.

The torrents and floods were not limited to Tehran, but affected 18 out of 31 provinces in the Islamic Republic, such as Sistan-Baluchestan, Fars, Kerman, Hormozgan, Yazd, Isfahan and Khorasan, in light of expectations that rain will continue in the coming days.

The climate in southern and central Iran is largely dry, but these areas witnessed floods in multiple stages, the last of which was last week.

On Saturday, officials announced that at least 22 people were killed as a result of torrential rains that hit areas in Fars Province (south).