Iranian authorities have ordered the evacuation of six more towns in the south-western province of Khuzestan, which is widely inundated with floods. Gholamreza Shariati, the provincial governor, told state TV rescue teams are taking residents to nearby shelters, including three army barracks. Evacuation orders came as a new round of raining and floods is expected. Interior Minister Abdolreza Rahmani Fazli said some 400,000 people are at risk, out of the province’s population of five million. There have been no evacuation orders for major cities, including the province’s capital of Ahvaz, which has 1.7 million residents.

Source: Irish Examiner April 06, 2019 07:41 UTC