Flash flooding caused by torrential rains has killed nine people, including at least four children, in northern Turkey, authorities said Wednesday. The state-run Anadolu agency reported that the downpours caused a river to burst its banks late Tuesday, inundating homes and shops and stranding cars in the Black Sea port city of Samsun. According to AP, two brothers, aged 1 and 5 years old, and a father and his two sons, aged 9 and 16, drowned when the flood hit their homes, it said. The country's emergency management authority said in a statement that at least nine people were killed and another one was missing in Samsun. It said 21 people were injured.
