Istanbul flood toll hits seven as search ends
Istanbul’s flood death toll rose to seven on Oct. 20 after rescuers recovered the body of the last person reported missing in the affected area, the governor’s office has said.
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[Claude] Report 2 covers the same flood and search-end announcement, with an updated toll of nine that includes Kocaeli, which is a later update rather than a contradiction of Report 1's Istanbul figure of sev
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