Seventy people have died in flooding in Iran after record rainfalls began saturating parts of the country last month, state-run media reported.
Deaths have been recorded across 13 provinces, with the highest casualties in Fars, Lorestan, Golestan and Hamedan, state-run IRNA quotes the head of Iran's Coroner's Office, Ahmad Shojaei, as saying.Flash flooding kills 19, injures more than 100 in southwest IranThe semi-official Mehr News agency says record rainfalls since March 19 have so far flooded some 1,900 cities and villages across Iran, causing hundreds of millions of dollars of damage to water and agriculture infrastructures.
Iran accuses US of hindering aidThe speaker of Iran's Parliament, Ali Larijani on Saturday reiterated Tehran's accusations that the United States is hindering the delivery of relief aid from the International Red Cross to Iran's Red Crescent Society."Iran has not received even a dollar from the Red Cross due to US measures and sanctions," Mehr quoted him as saying.
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