Flood toll rises to 9 in İstanbul and Kocaeli as search for the missing ends
The death toll from last week’s flooding in İstanbul and neighboring Kocaeli province rose to nine Tuesday after rescuers recovered the body of the last person reported missing in İstanbul, the state-run Anadolu news agency reported. The İstanbul Governor’s Office said the body of Ahmet Derin was found in the Golden Horn, an inlet on…
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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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