200 teams aiding Sistan and Baluchestan flood-hit areas

200 relief teams were dispatched to flood-hit areas of Sistan and Baluchestan to provide services to the victims, according to the Secretary General of the Iranian Red Crescent.

200 teams aiding Sistan and Baluchestan flood-hit areas

MEHR: 200 relief teams were dispatched to flood-hit areas of Sistan and Baluchestan to provide services to the victims, according to the Secretary General of the Iranian Red Crescent.

Explaining the latest situation in the flood-hit areas of Sistan and Baluchestan, Yaghoub Soleimani, Secretary General of the Iranian Red Crescent said, "After the flood occurred in the south of Sistan and Baluchestan, Red Crescent relief teams were dispatched to provide services to the victims."

More than 150 rescue teams are providing relief aid in this area, he said, adding that 50 teams from South, Razavi, and North Khorasan provinces, as well as Kerman province, have been dispatched to provide relief.

The head of the national crisis management organization of Iran has announced that 16 counties and 1,947 villages in the southeastern Iranian province of Sistan-Baluchestan have been stricken by flood in the last few days.