Ankara: A police boat and diver joined the search for around 30 people who still lost more than a week after severe floods were destroyed part of the Turkish Black Sea Coast, Turkish media reported Friday as the authorities raised the death toll from the disaster to 79.
Turkish disaster The management agency, Afad, said 69 people were killed in Kastamonu Province, nine in the province of Sinop and each other in Bartin Province.
The agency said earlier this week that 34 people were countless.
Heavy rain pitted the provinces of the Black Sea in the northwestern Turkey on August 11, causing flooding that destroyed houses and bridges, sweeping the car and blocking access to the road.
Turkish channel Haberturk TV said a police boat and police divers were looking for people still countless in the area where the Ezine flow flowed into the black sea, and where they were afraid of flooding may have brought some missing.
More than 10,000 personnel were involved in the search and rescue mission in all regions and efforts to help survivors, said Afad.
Nineteen Delaki Dogs also looked for missing, said agency.
The worst area is the town of Bozkurt, in Kastamonu, where floods flooded houses and shops, leveling eight-story buildings and damaging other buildings suspected of being incorrectly built on the river.
The eight-story apartment building contractor who collapsed was arrested on Wednesday and was charged with “negligent causing death and injury.” At least four people – a woman and three children – died in collapse.
Some neighbors remain countless.
About 2,400 people were evacuated throughout the region in the middle of the flood.
Many are placed temporarily in the student dormitory.
Floods hit the North Turkish coast when hundreds of rescue workers tried to tame fire racing on the country of South Mediterranean.
Climate scientists firmly said that climate change leads to more extreme weather events as the world warms out due to burning coal, oil and natural gas.
Police boat, search divers lost from Turkish floods
