The latest victim was a seven-year girl whose body was found 700 meters (yards) from her house after she was swept away Saturday by floodwaters in Cat, eastern Turkey, it said.

Three deaths were reported in the eastern town of Erzurum, two in Batman in the southeast and another in Bitlis, while five people were unaccounted for in Kony, central Turkey, and Silifke in the south, officials said.

Meanwhile eight people, including a 60-year-old British skier, died in avalanches in eastern Turkey on Friday and Saturday.

In Silifke, nearly 10,000 houses were submerged by overflowing waters of the Goksu river, Anatolia quoted the provincial governor, Atilla Osmancelebioglu, as saying.

It said the sole bridge linking the eastern Ardahan province to neighboring Georgia was swept away by waters of the Kura river.

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