Intanbul: The death toll from severe flooding and landslides in the coastal Turkey has risen to at least 40, the country’s emergency and disaster said Saturday.
Heavy rains that pounded Bartin Black Sea Provinces, Kastamonu and Sinop on Wednesday caused a flood that destroyed the house, decided at least five bridges, swept a lot of unshakable roads.
The Turkish Disaster Agency Afad said 34 people were killed in Kastamonu and six in Sinop.
Nine people remain hospitalized in Sinop and one person missing in Bartin Province, according to agency.
But some residents said on social media that there were more lost hundreds, a statement was also made by a member of the opposition parliament.
About 2,250 people were evacuated throughout the region, some were lifted from the roof with helicopters, and many were placed while in the student dormitory, the authorities said.
Climate scientists firmly say that climate change leads to extreme weather events as the world warms out because of burning coal, oil and natural gas.
Such disasters are expected to occur more often like this planet warms up.
However, experts in Turkey, say interference with rivers and improper construction are also contributors to major damage in Turkish floods.
Geologists say that the construction narrows the river bed and the aluvial floodland around the Ezine flow in the Bozkurt Kastamonu district, where the damage is the most severe, of 400 meters (1,312 feet) up to 15 meters (49 feet).
Housing buildings are built along the sea.
During severe rain, the contracted stream has a limited area to move and can overflow.
The video posted by residents shows water flowing profusely in Bozkurt as a building and the surrounding road floods.
A geologist, Ramazan Demirtas, explained the bed of a narrowed river on Twitter and said that humans had to be blamed for the disaster this week.
Floods hit the heels of forest fires in South Turkey who destroyed forests in the province of coastal Mugla and Antalya, which are popular with tourists.
At least eight people died and thousands of residents were forced to escape.