Civil Defense divers recovered the bodies of two brothers who died after drowning at the overflowing Klakh Dam south of Taif yesterday. The two men, 26 and 30, were walking close to the water when one of them slipped and fell. His brother tried to rescue him but was also drowned.
Col. Khaled Al-Qahtani, spokesman of Civil Defense in Taif, expressed his condolences to the families of the deceased. He said floods caused the formation of massive water pools in the excavations of three projects east of the city. The department has received over 2,200 reports over the last 24 hours related to floods reaching homes in 11 villages where people were stranded. He said 35 people were rescued and 50 cars were towed to safety, adding that damages were recorded in 18 roads and routes among the region’s towns.
King Khaled Hospital and the Prince Sultan Center in Al-Kharj received on Monday, the bodies of two children who drowned in a rain-water-filled pit in the Al-Faysaliya district, said the director of the hospital, Dr. Majed Mughrabi.
In the Addalam governorate, two men died in rainfall-related accidents. A Civil Defense official said rescuers recovered the bodies of a man who fell off the Barqa Bridge and another who drowned inside his car, which was stranded in a floodplain.
