Jamal Hasn, the director of Zakho civil defense told Rudaw that 410 houses, 130 business places, and 25 vehicles have been damaged due to the torrential rains and floods that battered the city earlier this week.
Hasn said that each household has been compensated with an undisclosed amount of money and 200 liters of kerosene.
A torrential downpour battered central Duhok city and its suburbs starting Monday evening and lasting through Tuesday, causing flooding in many areas. Rainwater swept through houses and shops, causing material damage. Three people were killed.
The province witnessed over 200 millimeters of rain in just a few days. “This is the first time that such a large amount of rain has fallen in Duhok in such a short time,” governor Ali Tatar said during a press conference on Saturday.
The flooding caused about seven billion dinars in damage, Pir Dayyan Pir Khdir, the head of Duhok’s disaster response agency, told Rudaw Radio’s Mohammed Rahim Karim on Saturday.
Pir Khdir said that his agency brought 1,040 people to 11 hotels in Duhok and teams are now cleaning houses that suffered the least damage.
Flash floods during the rainy fall and winter seasons have become a common occurrence in the Kurdistan Region in recent years, at times reaching disastrous levels, leading to deaths and large amounts of damage.
