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Interior Minister shoulders responsibility of management of floods (preventive and preparatory measures, reconstruction, rehabilitation, coordination and division of tasks) in all executive bodies and relevant institutes, he said.
“All ministries, organizations and institutes, military and disciplinary forces and all state and private sectors are duty-bound to execute orders of the interior minister,” he said.
Rains unseen in the country over the past six decades coincided with the annual Nouroz (Persian New Year) travelling season. The deluge killed at least 70 people and destroyed hundreds of towns and villages as wells a shattering the lives of thousands of people, mostly in the deprived areas.
Fars Province accounted for the largest human toll and residents of Golestan, Lorestan and Khuzestan provinces incurred huge financial losses.
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