Death toll rises from fierce storms and flooding across Europe

Vehicles were left scattered during floods after heavy rain in Istanbul (Sercan Ozkurnazli/Dia Images via AP)

The death toll from severe rainstorms that have lashed parts of Greece, Turkey and Bulgaria has increased to nine after rescue teams located the bodies of a missing tourist who was swept away by floodwaters that raged through a campsite in Turkey and of another person in Greece.

A flash flood at the campsite near the border with Bulgaria carried away bungalow homes.