Tata resident takes refuge in mountains after torrents besiege town

A. Latif Baraka: Heba Press

The rainstorm that swept through the Tata region on Friday and Saturday morning caused torrents to flood the city and several neighborhoods to be besieged after the Renaissance Bridge collapsed under the force of the torrential torrents.

Due to the force of the storm, which the locals had never witnessed before, many residents were forced to climb the mountains in the area to protect themselves from drowning in the torrents.

Meanwhile, sources in the region said that one of the buses carrying the passengers belongs to a local parliamentarian who is famous for saying: “Where is he or where will I go, as if the matter of his speech was waiting for this?” incident, which drove dozens of families out of their homes and climbed mountains to protect their lives, while local authorities raced against time to save what they could.

The Tata crisis was exacerbated by the wrath of nature, due to the disruption of communication facilities, due to damage to the power grid, part of which was submerged in water, which stopped the communication network in the region.

Efforts are continuing regarding information received in the region, hit by torrential rains recorded today Friday.