A damaged car and shop are covered in mud after flash flooding at Imamzadeh Davood village in the northwestern part of Tehran, Iran, Thursday, July 28, 2022.
Flash floods triggered by heavy rains killed seven Iraqi tourists in northeastern Iran on Saturday, Iranian state media reported, the latest in rising casualty tolls as the downpours continue to lash the country.
Among the fatalities were five women and the group's Iranian driver. Three Iraqis were missing while the other passengers managed to get to safety.Also Saturday, Iranian authorities raised the death toll from landslides and flash floods that engulfed the country since Thursday to 61 as eight more bodied were retrieved. It said at least 32 people are still missing.
There were fears the death toll could rise even further as more bodies are being uncovered as the rains abate. Thousands have been transferred from remote areas to safer places. This week's storm is the deadliest among Iran's rain-related incidents in the last decade. In 2019, a flash flood killed at least 21 people in the southern city of Shiraz, and two years earlier, a similar storm claimed 48 lives in northwestern Iran.
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