Flood in Iran: Death toll reaches 70
According to the Emergency Organization, floods in Iran have killed 70 people so far. According to the Iranian Meteorological Department, a new rainfall system will be “active” in the entire country starting next Saturday, except for the provinces of Sistan and Baluchestan and Hormozgan.
According to a report by the Iranian Emergency Organization, the death toll from the recent floods in various regions of the country has reached 70 people and 768 people have been injured.
According to a table published by the Iranian Emergency Organization, of the total number of deaths from floods and heavy rainfall from March 16 to 8 a.m. today, Thursday, April 4, 23 people have died in Fars Province, 14 in Lorestan, 8 in Golestan, 5 in Mazandaran, 5 in Hamedan, 3 in North Khorasan, 3 in Kohgiluyeh and Boyer Ahmad, one in Khorasan Razavi, one in Semnan, one in Khuzestan, one in Kermanshah, one in Zanjan, one in Qazvin, one in Isfahan, one in Qom, and one in Ilam.
Iran's emergency statistics show that the most casualties from the recent floods were in Lorestan province with 256 people, while Qom, Zanjan and North Khorasan provinces had no casualties. Earlier, Iran's forensic medicine had announced the number of victims of the recent floods at 62 and the number of injured at 478.
Ahad Vazvi, Director General of Forecasting and Early Warning at the Iranian Meteorological Organization, announced on Thursday that as a new precipitation system enters the country, starting next Saturday, the provinces of East Azerbaijan, West Kermanshah, Ilam, Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad, the north of Khuzestan, Fars, Bushehr and the west of Khorasan Razavi Province, the east of Semnan and the south of North Khorasan will experience heavy rainfall.
According to ISNA, the Director General of Forecasting and Early Warning of the Iranian Meteorological Organization added: "On Friday afternoon, with the entry of a precipitation system into the western and southern regions of the country, precipitation will begin in the entire western region, the northern Persian Gulf, the provinces of Bushehr, Kohgiluyeh, Boyer-Ahmad, and Fars, and in the late afternoon, the precipitation will cover the southern slopes of the Alborz in the provinces of Zanjan and Qazvin, and areas of the southeast, east, and center of the country."
Ahad Vazvi stressed that next Saturday, a new precipitation system will be "active" in all of Iran except for the provinces of Sistan and Baluchestan and Hormozgan.
The Iranian Meteorological Organization announced yesterday that a new precipitation system will enter the country starting next Saturday, April 7, and warned of scattered rainfall until the system arrives. The organization's announcement stated: "The precipitation system entered the country on the afternoon of Friday, April 7, 2019, and will be active nationwide on Saturday and Sunday next week. It is expected that rainfall between 25 and 35 millimeters will occur in the west and southwest of the country, including the provinces of Kermanshah, Ilam, northern and eastern Khuzestan, Kohgiluyeh and Boyer Ahmad, Bushehr, and northern Fars."
It was also announced: "As this system moves towards the northeast of the country from Saturday afternoon to Sunday afternoon, rainfall is estimated to be between 20 and 35 millimeters in the provinces of North Khorasan, North Khorasan Razavi, Semnan Highlands, Tehran Highlands, and Alborz."
The Iranian Meteorological Organization also recommended, "in light of the floods and heavy rainfall of the previous system," that "organizations related to water resources management take the necessary measures to maintain safety and reduce the risk of hazards resulting from possible flooding."
During the floods and heavy rainfall in Iran, which, according to President Hassan Rouhani, covered 25 provinces of the country at the beginning of the new solar year (2019), 70 people were killed and hundreds were injured. Other consequences of the recent floods were the loss of tens of thousands of Iranians and the loss of thousands of billions of tomans.
Source: DW
