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Flash floods kill at least 10 in Iran’s southeast
Iranian lawmaker Moineddin Saeedi said that the floods have destroyed several villages and cut off water and electricity supplies to many villages.
He said that floods have also destroyed up to 70% of roads in south of the province and damaged many bridges.
The spokesman for the country’s Crisis Management Organization Hossein Zafari said several helicopters have been dispatched and rescue operations are underway in the flood-hit areas to help people trapped there.
He said that Sistan and Baluchestan Province is in emergency situation but it is under control.
On Friday, Iran’s Interior Minister Ahmad Vahidi visited the flood-hit areas in the province which has been hit with second flood since March. According to Zafari, the southern provinces of Hormuzgan, Sistan and Baluchestan, Fars, Kerman and Bushehr have reported unprecedented rainfalls in recent days.