Istanbul: The death toll from severe flooding and landslides along the Turkish Black Sea coast has risen to at least 51, the country’s emergency and disaster said Saturday, because the authorities denied reports that hundreds of people were missing.
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 43 people were killed in Kastamonu, seven in Sinop and one in Bartin.
Nine people remain hospitalized, according to agency.
Some residents in Kastamonu said on social media that there were more lost hundreds, statements were also made by a member of the opposition parliament.
But the provincial governor’s office said that reported about 250 unknown bodies were incorrect.
It does not specifically discuss how many people can be lost in flooding.
Rescue teams and dog sniffers continue to do tiring tasks to try to find residents.
AFAD said 5,820 personnel, 20 rescue dogs, 20 helicopters and two search planes were in the disaster.
About 2,250 people were evacuated throughout the region amid floods, a number of them were lifted from the roof with a helicopter.
Many are placed temporarily in the student dormitory.
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.
However, experts in Turkey said intervention with non-right rivers and construction also contributed to massive flood damage.
Geologists say that construction narrows river beds and aluvial floodlands around the Ezine flow in the Bozkurt Kastamonu district, where the damage is the most severe, of 400 meters (1,312 feet) width up to 15 meters (49 feet).
Housing buildings are also built along the seafront.
During severe rain, a limited flow can only overflow.
The video posted by residents shows water flowing profusely in Bozkurt as a building and flood road.
A geologist, Ramazan Demirtas, explained the bed of the narrowed river on Twitter and said humans had to be blamed for the disaster this week.
In Sinop, the flood almost truly destroyed Babacay Village, leaving a falling house, broken bridges and debris behind them.
A five-storey apartment building built on the basis of the river was destroyed.
Broadcaster Turkey CNN Turk only shows the entrance and remaining walls.
Across from the Black Sea, heavy rainy days also produced flooding in the area of ​​the area of ​​South Russia.
The authorities in the Krasnodar region said on Saturday that more than 1,400 houses flooded a storm that swept the area this week.
About 108,000 residents of 11 settlements are left without strength.
Regional Russian emergency headquarters said more than 1,530 people had been evacuated.
The city of the Black Sea resort is the worst affected.
Officials have warned that heavy rains are expected for two more days.
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 16 people were killed in the forest fire – including eight emergency workers when their fire plane fell on Saturday – and thousands of residents and tourists were forced to escape.