Overview
- Authorities and rescue teams report at least five dead, including four children, with other official statements giving higher tolls and several people still missing.
- State media and ministry updates say al-Salmani Bridge west of Tabqa collapsed, severing the road between Raqqa and Aleppo and isolating some communities.
- Emergency crews evacuated about 375 families from camps on Raqqa’s rural outskirts and moved students from affected schools to safer locations.
- Civil defence and ministry figures differ on response totals; officials say hundreds of emergency operations were launched, dozens to scores of people were pulled from floodwater, and searches continue.
- The floods struck regions with war-damaged water and transport systems, increasing risk to displaced people and complicating relief after earlier 2026 flood damage to water plants and services.