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IRNA -- Flash floods triggered by
torrential rains have killed a 16-year-old boy in southern Iran and
destroyed vast swathes of farmland and roads in the region, a regional
governor said Saturday.
Heavy rains, which continued for two days, caused rivers in the
region to flood their banks, washing away farmlands, cattle ranches,
shrimp farming units as well as roads, he added.
A provincial transport official, Akbar Shirazi, said floods had
severed linkage between several villages and major cities in the Fars
province, including five villages which had totally been left
marooned.
The secretary of the natural disasters office in the province,
Hamid Taqizadeh, said relief workers had rescued up to 70 nomadic
families, caught up in rising waters in the town of Darab, with 30
other families still in desperate need of assistance.
The official predicted that the situation would get even more
critical in the coming hours in the Fars province amid the worsening
flooding.
According to the head of the Agricultural Jihad Office in Dayyer,
Bushehr province, Issa Mohammad-Doust, floods caused its vast Goldanu
dam to crack open, sending waves of water towards nearby lands.
In Gachsaran in Kohgilouyeh-Boyer Ahmad province, floods have
seriously damaged more than 90 bridges and cut 90 percent of roads
which link nomadic regions.
The governor of Farashband appealed to the provincial natural
disaster and red crescent offices for assistance, `given that most of
the aid stockpiles in the region have been sent to Bam` in southeast
Iran, which was destroyed in a fatal earthquake late December.
Meanwhile, officials at the meteorological office of Fars
province, predicted more rains in the next two days as a result of a
`dynamic` front which has affected the provinces of Fars, Bushehr,
Kohgilouyeh and Boyer Ahmad as well as Khuzestan.
