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Tragedy Strikes as Torrential Rains Ravage Turkey, Bulgaria, and Greece

Authorities report that at least 14 people died in Tuesday’s heavy downpours in Turkey, Bulgaria, Greece, and other countries. Greece, which had just recovered from a summer of terrible fires, received as much rain as it does in a year.

Authorities report that recent poor weather in Spain, a nation that is fighting global warming head-on, has taken three lives in addition to the three who are still missing. This follows months of drought.

At least seven people perished in Turkey on Tuesday night, according to the most recent information, including two in Istanbul.

In the Kirklareli province (North-West), one individual is still unaccounted for.

Ali Yerlikaya, the interior minister, reported 31 injuries, eight of which are still hospitalized in Istanbul, where the streets have become torrents.

According to accounts in the media, a metro station partially flooded and hundreds of people had to be rescued from a public library.The rains come after an unusually dry summer during which the 16 million-person city’s water reserves reached their lowest point in nine years.

At least four people perished on the Black Sea coast on Tuesday in the neighboring country of Bulgaria, where the rain had also ceased by midday on Wednesday. Many thousands of visitors have been impacted.

In addition to the 51-year-old man’s body being discovered, a worker perished at the age of 61. Later, the remains of two women—the 54-year-old president of the regional court and her 30-year-old doctor daughter—were found. When a bridge was washed away by a river’s waves, they were driving across it.

According to Alexandar Djartov, the head of relief, it dropped in 24 hours, which is the equivalent of many months’ worth of rain, and hasn’t happened since 1994.A day of sorrow was observed in Tsarevo, the city that was most severely affected.

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