Heaviest rains in 80 years kill 31 in Turkey

2009/09/09 15:37:26 @Reuters: International News

ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Flash floods killed 31 people in northwest Turkey, sweeping through the city of Istanbul, swamping houses, turning highways into fast-flowing rivers and drowning seven women in a minibus that was taking them to work. div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=r049G7qw650:Jc335iOiB-c:yIl2AUoC8zA" img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0" /img /a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=r049G7qw650:Jc335iOiB-c:F7zBnMyn0Lo" img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?i=r049G7qw650:Jc335iOiB-c:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0" /img /a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=r049G7qw650:Jc335iOiB-c:V_sGLiPBpWU" img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?i=r049G7qw650:Jc335iOiB-c:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0" /img /a /div img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/reuters/worldNews/~4/r049G7qw650" height="1" width="1"/
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