Death toll from severe floods in northern Turkey reaches 27

An 80-year-old woman is still missing in Bartin province, says the country’s Disaster and Emergency Management.

Search-and-rescue crews have recovered 10 more bodies overnight, raising the death toll to 27 from the severe floods and mudslides that struck northern Turkey. The floods battered the Black Sea coastal provinces of Bartin, Kastamonu, Sinop and Samsun on Wednesday, demolishing homes and bridges and sweeping away cars. Hundreds of people were rescued by helicopters while 1,700 others were evacuated. The Disaster and Emergency Management Presidency, or AFAD, said rescuers recovered 10 more bodies in worst-hit Kastamonu on Friday, bringing the number of dead to 27. An 80-year-old woman was reported missing in Bartin province.