At least 10 people have been killed after torrential rains triggered flash floods in Turkey's southeastern Sanliurfa and Adiyaman provinces, the state-owned Anadolu news agency reported on Wednesday.
Floodwater carried away cars and debris and inundated the basement and ground floors of some buildings, turning roads into rivers in central Sanliurfa, footage from social media and local broadcasters showed.
Search and rescue efforts for the missing and people trapped in their buildings continued with divers and boats, the country's disaster management authority said.A general view shows a flooded street, following torrential rains in Sanliurfa, Turkey, March 15, 2023, in this screen grab obtained from a social media video. Courtesy of Seher Cakmak via REUTERSIt said that more than 100 millimetres per square metre of rain had fallen in the affected provinces in the last 24 hours.
The provinces, home to some 2.7 million people, were hit by last month's earthquakes which killed more than 48,000 people in Turkey and left millions homeless.
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