At least 24 people are dead in two days of flooding caused by heavy rains near Iran’s capital Tehran
The state weather service issued a warning of more heavy rains on Saturday and Sunday and urged people to avoid streams and river beds.
"Because of strong rain and floods in the village of Emamzadeh Davoud to the west and the Firouzkouh, Roudehen and Damavand regions east of Tehran, 24 people are dead," a Red Crescent statement said on Friday.The flash flooding near Tehran, in the foothills of the Alborz mountains, comes less than a week after floods in the normally dry south of Iran left 22 people dead.
In Firouzkouh east of the capital 10 people lost their lives, 12 were injured and 16 are missing, Tehran Governor Mohsen Mansouri told state television.Flash floods kill over a dozen, sweep away cars in southern IranA preliminary official toll on Thursday put the number of dead at seven with 14 missing in Emamzadeh Davoud, a tourist destination just outside Tehran, and the Damavand region.
He said that in Yazd in central Iran, "roads were flooded, especially in the old city", a UNESCO world heritage site.
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