Heavy floods hit northwest Turkey killing 17 people
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Seventeen people were killed in flash floods in Turkey's Black Sea region on Thursday that sent water and debris cascading through streets, damaged bridges and ripped up roads in the second natural disaster to strike the country this month.
The floodwaters brought chaos to northern provinces just as authorities were declaring that some of the wildfires that had raged through southern coastal regions for two weeks had been brought under control. The floods and the fires, which killed eight people and devastated tens of thousands of hectares of forest, struck in the same week that a United Nations panel said global warming is dangerously close to spiraling out of control.More Related News
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