More than 3,000 families have been displaced from areas hit by torrential flooding in the southern Iraqi province of Maysan for about two weeks.
The Anatolia news agency quoted Lieutenant-Colonel Karim al-Asadi as saying that the civil defense teams continue to evacuate the threatened families from their homes by drowning due to rising water levels in the Tigris River.
Asadi said land bumpers were being set up to prevent the flow of floodwater to the center of Maysan and other parts of the province, adding that water levels continued to rise for the second week.
The torrential floods coming from Iran have flooded villages and agricultural land in neighboring Iraqi provinces.
Earlier, the Agence France-Presse reported that the floods flooded more than 30,000 dunums of the village's land.
Earlier, the Ministry of Water Resources announced that the dams - including the Mosul dam, the dams of the Kurdistan region and Lake Tharharar between the provinces of Salah al-Din and Anbar - were almost filled by the flow of large amounts of water from Iran and Turkey, as well as heavy rain on the country.
While authorities sought to contain the flood risk in five provinces, farmers in several areas complained of significant damage to their farms and homes.