Damascus, Feb 8 - At least three people lost their lives today, including a volunteer rescuer and two children, and several remain missing after sudden floods caused by heavy rains that battered northwest Syria.
According to the Syrian Civil Defense, two minors died and a third was rescued alive after waters swept away their home in the Ain Issa area, north of the coastal province of Latakia.
The agency explained that the children were siblings and that their teams recovered the bodies of two of them, while the search continues for two missing civilians in the town of Asaliya.
In a related incident, a volunteer of the Syrian Arab Red Crescent died and six were injured when an ambulance went off the road and fell into a valley in the Jabal al-Turkman area.
In the northern province of Idlib, authorities and emergency teams deployed an urgent response to evacuate displaced families after floods submerged camps in the Khirbet al-Jouz area, to the west of the territory.
Torrential rains flooded seasonal watercourses and submerged dozens of tents, forcing residents to evacuate immediately.
Several schools and shelters were enabled as temporary shelters, while rescuers evacuated patients and staff from Ain al-Bayda Hospital, which was flooded on its ground floor, to Jisr al-Shughur and Idlib as a precautionary measure.
The Minister of Emergencies and Disaster Management, Raed al-Saleh, confirmed that clearance and evacuation operations continue in Idlib, Sarmada, Jisr al-Shughur, Saraqib, and rural areas of Hama, and called for extreme caution.
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