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Force of nature: Horrendous floods hit Istanbul and north-western Turkey

Thu, Sep 10 2009 12:46 CET

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Force of nature: Horrendous floods hit Istanbul and north-western Turkey

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Force of nature: Horrendous floods hit Istanbul and north-western Turkey

Force of nature: Horrendous floods hit Istanbul and north-western Turkey

Force of nature: Horrendous floods hit Istanbul and north-western Turkey

Force of nature: Horrendous floods hit Istanbul and north-western Turkey

Force of nature: Horrendous floods hit Istanbul and north-western Turkey

Force of nature: Horrendous floods hit Istanbul and north-western Turkey

Force of nature: Horrendous floods hit Istanbul and north-western Turkey

Force of nature: Horrendous floods hit Istanbul and north-western Turkey

The death toll following huge floods that swept through Istanbul and north-western Turkey has risen to at least 31 people, one Bulgarian among them, with others still missing, the BBC said on September 10.

Authorities have begun the clear-up, while teams are still searching for the missing, after what the Turkish prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan called the "disaster of the century", the BBC said.

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