The woman was seriously injured when her minibus was hit in the Halkali district on Wednesday. Seven other people drowned in the minibus which was deemed unfit to transport people.

In the Istanbul suburb of Catalca, a seven-year-old girl was found dead five days after she disappeared in the devastating floods that also killed four of her family members, Anatolia news agency reported citing officials in Istanbul.

Six people have now been found dead in the northwest province of Tekirdag and 29 in Istanbul following floods that were triggered by torrential rains last Monday and Tuesday.

The town of Kumbag in the province of Tekirdag, to the west of Turkey's biggest city, was hit by more rain on Saturday that flooded around 4,000 homes, causing major damage but no victims, Mayor Huseyin Uzunlar was quoted as saying by Anatolia.

Authorities had braced for more heavy rain in Istanbul at the weekend, but no major flooding was reported in the city of 12 million people.

More than 6,300 emergency workers and 2,200 vehicles were mobilised to respond to any catastrophe in Istanbul, authorities said.

Nine dead as floods hit Algeria
Eight people were swept away by flash floods and a ninth was killed by lightning as more thunderstorms lashed southwestern Algeria, the civil defence agency told the state news service APS Saturday.

Four people drowned at El Bayadh, some 700 kilometres (450 miles) southwest of Algiers late Friday, the agency said.

A woman, her daughter and two male relatives also died when their vehicle was caught by a flash flood in a river bed in the district of Naama, 600 kilometres southwest of the capital.

Another person had been struck by lightning shortly beforehand in the same area.

The latest deaths brought the toll to nine since Tuesday, including three children swept away at El Bayadh on Wednesday and a regional official drowned in the Laghouat district, 400 kilometres south of the capital, on Thursday.

The storms have also affected neighbouring Morocco, where five people have been reported killed.

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Storm systems Fred and Linda weaken
Hurricane Fred was downgraded to a tropical storm on Friday, as forecasters said tropical storm Linda in the Pacific was expected to dissipate altogether.

The Miami-based National Hurricane Center (NHC) downgraded Fred to a tropical storm as it edged north west of the Cape Verde islands off Africa's Atlantic coast.

Forecasters said Fred was moving with sustained winds of 70 miles (110 kilometers) per hour and was set to weaken further.

"Little motion is anticipated during the next two days," the NHC said of the storm, which had weakened to a category one storm overnight and never had much of a chance of making landfall.

This year's Atlantic hurricane season, which began on June 1 and ends November 30, has seen a handful of tropical storms but only Hurricane Bill, which grazed the US east coast and eastern Canada last month, has been severe.

Meanwhile in the Pacific, the remnants of what was once Hurricane Linda -- now weakened to tropical storm status -- continued to lose strength, the NHC said.

At 2100 GMT, Linda was some 2,220 kilometers (1380 miles) west of the southern tip of Baja California, far from land.

The storm was moving in a northwesterly direction at about nine kilometers (six miles) per hour, with winds of 75 kilometers (45 miles) per hour.

"Linda is expected to weaken below tropical storm strength and to degenerate into a remnant low this evening," the center said.

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