Flood Hitted Turkey Capital Istanbul Nine Killed
Wednesday, September 9, 2009 at 3:27 pm
ANKARA: Nine people were killed and two were missing on Tuesday as torrential rain triggered floods in north-western Turkey, media reports and officials said.
A family of five were swept away from a farm near the town of Saray, Tekirdag province, when heavy rain caused a river to burst its banks overnight and inundate a large area, causing significant material damage, the town’s mayor Nazmi Coban told a news agency.
The bodies of the mother and her three daughters, aged six, eight and 12, were found several kilometres away from the farm. Rescue teams were still looking for the father.
Rescuers also discovered the bodies of an elderly couple among the wreckage of a nearby house that was swept away by the flooding, Coban told Anatolia.
In Silivri, a seaside suburb of Turkey’s biggest city Istanbul, one person died of a heart attack when flood waters gushed into his home, governor Muammer Gulen told the Anatolia news agency.
Rescuers were searching for a two-year-old girl washed away by the flood in a car from which her mother and sister managed to get out safely, he added.
Dozens of people were evacuated from their homes by military helicopters and small boats
ISLAMABAD: The sugar mill owners Wednesday filed a petition in Supreme Court (SC) against the verdict given by Lahore High Court (LHC), challenging the jurisdiction of LHC.
Farooq Amjad Mir Advocate filed the petition on the part of sugar mills owners with the opinion that the issue of sugar price does not come under the jurisdiction of the high court.
The petition said that a high court cannot deliver a verdict without hearing the viewpoints of the parties to the case.
According to petition, the price which LHC mentioned on page-13 of its verdict is different from the price mentioned on page-14.
The petition has made party in this petition the federal government, Punjab government, Finance Ministry, Ministry of Industry and Production and Trading Corporation of Pakistan (TCP).
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