RIYADH: Twenty people have died and four people remain missing in Saudi Arabia after heavy downpours triggered flash floods in the desert kingdom for nearly a week, civil defence authorities said yesterday.
People have drowned in several areas of Saudi Arabia, according to a statement by the civil defence quoted by SPA state news agency.
Rescue teams evacuated six villages in the southwestern Bisha province after a sand dam at the valley of Tabala partially collapsed, it said. Authorities have been urging people to avoid wadi valleys and plains flooded by heavy rainfall which has continued since last Friday. AFP
