Translation by Rana Abdul
(Zaman Al Wasl)- Two hours had not passed since the start of the rain falling on Latakia’s countryside for the village streets to flood disrupting the movement of traffic in some street. And this situation goes back to “the theft of provincial officials of the financial resources allocated for infrastructure and services,” according to a post on the Coastal Media (al-Sahil Media) page.
With the continued rainfall since Saturday morning until the afternoon, the water drains in the streets were clogged, and water flooded tens of orchids in a number of villages resulting in the destruction of their produce.
The flood caused large damages in the villages lying in the valleys of Latakia’s countryside, where in Beit Yashout the rising water flooded fields of vegetables, tobacco, and destroyed a large amount of them, and the villages of Joubet Bulgur and Stamo are in a similar situation.
The villagers placed the responsibility of what happened to them on the town municipal officers because they did not work on building support walls and water buffers around the orchids and fields, “they are interested in stealing money and placing it in their bank accounts” according to Abu Majid from the village of Stamo.
Haidar Abu al-Shamlat from the village of Beit Yashout swore rudely at the governor and the town municipal officers and the services. He said they are stealing poor people’s money to buy new cars and villas on the beachfront, and his shouting rose up in the neighborhood “the regime let my son die in al-Raqqah airport, and the provincial leadership neglects the services in our villages for the spring rain to flood our crops, I paid for the seedlings, manure, and the price of the tilling, how will I get that back?”
One employee in Latakia municipality in a press release for Latakia’s Media Network estimated the famers’ losses to the tens of millions of Syrian Pounds, and he refuted knowing if there is the possibility of them being compensated.
Latakia and its countryside witnesses annual spring floods that with each year repeat the loss in crops and produce because the province and municipalities stopped maintaining the water drains with the end of winter.
(Zaman Al Wasl)- Two hours had not passed since the start of the rain falling on Latakia’s countryside for the village streets to flood disrupting the movement of traffic in some street. And this situation goes back to “the theft of provincial officials of the financial resources allocated for infrastructure and services,” according to a post on the Coastal Media (al-Sahil Media) page.
With the continued rainfall since Saturday morning until the afternoon, the water drains in the streets were clogged, and water flooded tens of orchids in a number of villages resulting in the destruction of their produce.
The flood caused large damages in the villages lying in the valleys of Latakia’s countryside, where in Beit Yashout the rising water flooded fields of vegetables, tobacco, and destroyed a large amount of them, and the villages of Joubet Bulgur and Stamo are in a similar situation.
The villagers placed the responsibility of what happened to them on the town municipal officers because they did not work on building support walls and water buffers around the orchids and fields, “they are interested in stealing money and placing it in their bank accounts” according to Abu Majid from the village of Stamo.
Haidar Abu al-Shamlat from the village of Beit Yashout swore rudely at the governor and the town municipal officers and the services. He said they are stealing poor people’s money to buy new cars and villas on the beachfront, and his shouting rose up in the neighborhood “the regime let my son die in al-Raqqah airport, and the provincial leadership neglects the services in our villages for the spring rain to flood our crops, I paid for the seedlings, manure, and the price of the tilling, how will I get that back?”
One employee in Latakia municipality in a press release for Latakia’s Media Network estimated the famers’ losses to the tens of millions of Syrian Pounds, and he refuted knowing if there is the possibility of them being compensated.
Latakia and its countryside witnesses annual spring floods that with each year repeat the loss in crops and produce because the province and municipalities stopped maintaining the water drains with the end of winter.
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