Nine people from a group performing religious ritual lost their lives as the Jukskei River which overflowed due to heavy rain in the city of Johannesburg, South Africa. There are also 15 people went missing.
The Johannesburg Emergency Management Services Spokesperson stated that the missing casualties may have left the area due to the storm.
A flood in the shallow river in November 2016 drowned hundreds of makeshift houses in the city of Alexandria.
Hundreds of thousands of Iranians took to the streets after Friday prayers to protest Israel’s recent attacks on the country. The largest gatherings occurred in the capital, Tehran, where demonstrators marched following prayers at Tehran University.
High-ranking officials, including Iran’s Constitutional Court head Gholam Hossein Mohseni Ejei and former IRGC commander Major General Mohammad Ali Jafari, joined the protest. Participants waved Iranian, Palestinian, and resistance group flags, and trampled on Israeli and US flags laid on the ground.
Protesters held banners reading “Down with Israel”, “Down with the US”, and “The Zionist regime will be destroyed”, while chanting slogans such as “We stand behind our leader”, “Everyone who clashed with Khamenei will eventually be destroyed”, and “Our right to nuclear weapons”.
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