At least four people have been killed in northeastern Turkey after heavy rains triggered flash floods and landslides.

Three members of one family were reported killed when a landslide tore through their house on Thursday near the town of Borcka.

An elderly woman drowned in another nearby village, close to Turkey’s border with Georgia.

Emergency crews have been hampered in their efforts to get to those injured as many of the connecting roads have been flooded.

Landslides

Local television footage showed buildings destroyed by the landslides, and rescue workers carrying away the body of one of the flood victims on a stretcher.

A three-year-old child was rescued alive, but several other people were thought to be trapped in the debris of collapsed homes.

The deaths come two weeks after at least 30 people were killed in flash floods in Istanbul and other parts of northwest Turkey, following the heaviest rains in the region in eight decades.

Source: Aljazeera and agencies