Floods kill at least eight in northern Iraq

Residents clean a road full of mud after flash floods caused by torrential rains in Erbil, Iraq, December 17,2021. REUTERS/Azad Lashkari

SULAIMANIYA, Iraq (Reuters) - Flash floods in northern Iraq killed at least eight people on Friday, Iraqi Kurdish authorities said.

Another three people were missing after heavy rain caused the floods in remote areas south of the city of Erbil, capital of Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan region, the Kurdish civil defence first responders said.