Women making their way in the rain in Tehran, Iran, last month. The head of the country's meteorology service says the floods in large swathes of the country do not necessarily mean that a decades-long drought has ended. – EPA pic, April 14, 2019.
FLOODS in Iran have killed 76 people and caused more than US$2.2 billion in damage in recent weeks, officials said today, with warnings still in place for large swathes of the country. “With the deaths of five people in the Khuzestan province flood, and another person in Ilam province, the death toll has now reached 76” since March 19, said a statement published online by the coroner’s office.
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