5 minutes agoFlooding in Turkey, people swim through the streets of Istanbul (Video)
Periskopi(9 years ago)
(9 years ago)People had to swim to escape on Istanbul's flooded streets Tuesday after heavy rain and storms brought chaos to Turkey's largest city and caused traffic suspension through the Bosphorus Strait for several hours. Many roads, bridges, tunnels, and subway stations were flooded, and [...] cars were flooded.
Many roads, bridges, tunnels, and subway stations were flooded, and the cars were swept away by the water flow that followed two hours of lightning dumps throughout the city.
Television images showed people's sights swimming in the streets and being rescued by boats from flooded roads and homes.
The many clouds and poor visibility caused traffic through the Bosphorus Strait, an important international trade route for oil and grain, to be suspended for several hours.
The “this we are experiencing is natural disaster”, Transport Minister Ahmet Arslan has said of CNN Turk.
Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim said there is no record of victims.
