Bozkurt, Turkey: Families are missing after the worst Turkish flood in the years anxiously watched the rescue team looking for a building on Saturday, afraid of the death toll from a raging torrent could rise further.
At least 44 people have died of flooding in the North Black Sea area, the second natural disaster to attack the country this month.
Drone recording by Reuters shows massive damage in the Black Black Sea Bozkurt, where emergency workers look for destroyed buildings.
Thirty-six people died as a result of flooding in Kastamonu Regency which included Bozkurt, and seven other people died in Sinop and one in Bartin, said the Disaster and Emergency Management Directorate (AFAD).
In one building that collapsed along the banks of the Swollen River, 10 people still believed buried.
Fast flood water seems to have swept the foundation of several other apartment blocks.
Lost relatives, desperate for the news, are nearby.
“This has never happened before.
There is no power.
The cellphone is dead.
There is no acceptance.
You cannot receive news from anyone,” said Ilyas Kalabalik, a resident aged 42 years.
“We don’t know whether the water rises or not, whether it floods the building or not.
We are just waiting, like this.
Our wife and children panicked.
After sunrise in the morning, we saw police officers.
They took us from the building and Throw us to the gas station.
“Kalabalik is surrounded by people who ask each other if anyone has news about people who are missing.
“My aunt’s children are there.
My aunt disappears.
Her husband is gone.
His twin grandchildren disappear.
Our building manager’s wife lost along with two of their children,” Kalabalik told Reuters.
Floods brought chaos to the same northern province when the authorities declared a broken forest fires in the South Coast area for two weeks has been controlled.
About 45 cm (18 inches) rain fell in less than three days in one village near Bozkurt.
Water torrents throw a dozen cars and pile of debris along the road, destroy the bridge, closed road and cut electricity to hundreds of villages.
The small town of Bozkurt is located in a valley along the edge of the Ezine River in Kastamonu Province, 2.5 km (1.6 miles) from the Black Sea.