People pass by damaged vehicles near a police station in the Tunisian coastal governorate of Nabeul on Sunday following deadly flash flooding in the town of Bir Challouf (AFP photo)

NABEUL, Tunisia — Flash floods in Tunisia's Cap Bon peninsula have killed at least four people, authorities said on Sunday, as surging waters caused by heavy rains carried away homes, cars and chunks of road. In a statement of 23 September, the Ministry said that one person was swept away by floods in Takilsa, another in Bir Bouregba and 2 people near Bou Argoub.The Ministry of Interior said that 197 mm of rain fell in Nabeul on 22 September.Civil protection teams were required to pump water from over 150 flooded homes. Ministry spokesman Sofiene Zaag also said a 60-year-old man had drowned near the town of Takilsa and another man was found dead in Bir Bouregba, close to the town of Hammamet

Flash floods in Tunisia's Cap Bon peninsula have killed at least five people, authorities said Sunday, as surging waters caused by heavy rains carried away homes, cars and chunks of road. “The wadi in front of our house was blocked by trees and the water flooded over the bridge and onto the road,” he told AFP. Videos posted on social media showed surging waters sweeping away cars and pieces of road in the north of the Cap Bon peninsula. Severe thunderstorms have hit the North African country since the middle of last week, flooding roads and damaging property, sparking anger against the authorities for allegedly failing to maintain drainage systems.
Flash floods in Cap Bon, Tunisia have killed at least five people. The heavy rains also carried away homes, cars and chunks of road.