Houses in Tabriz were also damaged by flood.
Several bridges were destroyed in Urmiya and people of several villages were evacuated.
Number of dead and missing people is supposed to increase.
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14:04
Torrential downpours have caused flooding and landslides in four provinces in Iran’s northwest, killing a total of 25 people.
Esma’eel Najjar, the head of the country’s Crisis Management Organization, said on Saturday that the natural phenomena had hit the four provinces of East Azerbaijan, West Azerbaijan, Kordestan, and Zanjan Provinces.
Reports said Azar-Shahr and Ajab-Sheer counties in East Azerbaijan had suffered the highest fatalities from the flooding. Najjar said some 16 people remained missing in the two counties.
Kordestan Province was hit by both flooding and landslides.
Search and rescue operations have been underway, and military and law enforcement forces have been asked to assist.
Shahin Fat-hi, of the Iranian Red Crescent Society’s Search and Rescue Department, meanwhile, told ISNA that the operations had provided assistance to as many as 1150 people in 33 cities and villages.
He said 133 people had been accommodated in temporary shelters, 15 transferred to safe areas, and six taken to medical centers to receive due services.
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12:48
The floods killed 17 people in Iran which borders the Kurdistan Region, and 20 are missing.
At least two people have died after flash floods caused by heavy rain hit the Kurdistan Region in the last 24 hours, a police official told Rudaw.
A dead body of an unidentified man was recovered Friday who died in the flood, Hawar Argushi, spokesperson for Soran Police told Rudaw.
He added that they could not yet establish the identity of the person as he did not have identification cards with him.
Another 40-year old man died Saturday morning in Balakayati area, Soran, some 100 km northeast of Erbil, as he tried to collect woods streaming down the river.
There was heavy raining across the Kurdistan Region, especially in border areas with Iran on Friday.
The flooding also caused material losses in several villages and districts in the region, sweeping away at least one bridge in Soran, also trapping some 15 people in a rural area who had to spend the cold-night in their car.
Tofiq Aziz, one of the trapped persons, told Rudaw Saturday that they went out to the mountainous areas to pick some herbal food, but “there was a lot of raining in a short time,” causing a bridge to collapse.
He called on the authorities to rescue them.
The road between Erbil and Duhok was also blocked briefly due to heavy flooding on Friday night.
Just across Kurdistan’s border, in Iran’s northwestern areas, flash floods killed 17 people and 20 people are missing, Iranian state media reported.
Th Iranian rescue teams are now searching for the missing persons.
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09:11
In the eastern Iranian province of East Azerbaijan, floods occurred as a result of heavy rains.
According to preliminary data, the disaster in the city of Adjebshire killed 3 people, 13 were missing.
The floods also happened in Tabriz, Binab, Azerzahr, Maraga and Akhar.
There is no information about the dead and injured.
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