Floods kill at least 18 in southern Iran, nearly 100 wounded, Iran's semi-official Tasnim news agency reports.
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Iran's hardline judiciary said on Sunday the government's handling of the disaster was being investigated, the judiciary's Mizan news agency reported. Vehicles are piled up on a street after a flash flood in the southern city of Shiraz, Iran, on March 25, 2019.In a rare move, Iran's top authority, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, called on the armed forces to help the flood-hit northern provinces.
The spread of flooding to the south follows days of floods that affected more than 56,000 people living in 270 villages and small towns in the northern provinces of Golestan and Mazandaran, on the Caspian Sea, since March 19, TV reported. "We all are going to die. Pray for us. We are all going to die. Mother, we all are going to die," said a woman in a bus caught in the floods in Shiraz, according to a video posted on Twitter.
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