Floods in Iran kill over 100

Army helicopters are continuing to search north-eastern Iran for missing people after at least 100 were confirmed dead in flash floods.

President Khatami has urged officials to do what they can to alleviate the effects of what he described as a huge disaster.

It's feared the number of dead will rise.

The deputy governor of the province of Golestan said about fifteen-hundred homes had been destroyed in the worst flooding the region has known for 200 years.

Gas pipelines, electricity and phonelines have been cut and over eighty kilometres of road have been destroyed, as well as thousands of hectares of farmland.

From the newsroom of the BBC World Service