There is no end to the horror in Turkey, 18 dead from floods in the areas hit by the earthquake

After the powerful earthquake with over 50,000 dead, Turkey has been engulfed by another disaster. Bad weather and heavy rainfall has caused massive flooding in the earthquake-hit areas. Foreign media reports that 18 people have been killed so far in Sanliurfa and Antiyaman provinces on Wednesday.

Turkey's Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu confirmed that 16 people died in Sanliurfa and two in Antiyaman, while stressing that water supply will be restored to Sanliurfa on Saturday morning. A container housing a family of four earthquake workers in Antiyaman was swept away by a stream.

At the same time, in Sanliurfa, rushing streams destroyed everything in their path, flooded basements and ground floors, turned streets into rivers, as shown by videos broadcast by Turkish television networks. The Directorate of Disaster and Emergency Management (AFAD) announced that rescue teams with the help of divers have been deployed to rescue residents trapped in flooded areas, as well as to find missing persons. It points out that more than 100 millimeters of rain fell in the earthquake-hit provinces of southeastern Turkey in a 24-hour period.

The two provinces have a population of about 2.7 million people who are still trying to recover from the deadly February 6 earthquakes that killed more than 48,000 people in Turkey and left millions more homeless. Tens of thousands of earthquake victims remain in tents and containers – the temporary roofs of many of them flooded due to heavy rains.