Evacuation orders issued in Iran's Khuzestan province due to flood risks

The risk of floods has forced the Iranian government to order the evacuation of 70 villages in the oil-rich southwestern province of Khuzestan on Tuesday, the Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA) reported. The villages were close to the Dez and Karkheh rivers, Sush county governor Adnan Qazi said, quoted by IRNA. At least 45 people were killed in the past two weeks in flash floods in northern and southern Iran after the heaviest rains in at least a decade.