EU provides € 1.200 mln to Iranian flood victims

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News ID: 37432
Iran » Iran
Publish Date: 12:30 - 05 April 2019
TEHRAN, Apr 05 - European Commissioner for Humanitarian Aid and Crisis Management Christos Stylianides said the EU is going to provide Iran with 1.200 million euros to help people in the flood-affected areas.

EU provides € 1.200 mln to Iranian flood victimsTEHRAN, Young Journalists Club (YJC) - The EU completely sympathizes with Iranians during this hard time, he wrote in his twitter page.

The tragedy started in the four Northern provinces of Mazandaran, Golestan, Semnan and North Khorassan on March 20. Thirty provinces of Iran have been hit by severe weather conditions since then.

Over 56,000 people were affected in various cities and rural areas in Golestan and Mazandaran as a result of heavy rainfall that hit the two provinces on March 19 and 20.

While the nation was shocked by the casualties and magnitude of destructions in the Northern regions of the country, another round of floods hit the country in the Western and Southwestern provinces on March 25.

The most shocking images were relayed from Shiraz, a very popular tourist destination homing historical monuments from ancient times to the present age, where the Northern opening gate of the city witnessed a tragic pileup of cars swept away by a flash flood.

 

 

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