Torrential rainfall submerged streets and cut off electricity in parts of Saudi Arabia's second largest city Jeddah on Wednesday, raising fears of a repeat of floods in 2009 which killed more than 120 people.
The last floods triggered a rare public debate about weaknesses in infrastructure in the top oil exporter, one of the world's richest countries.
On Wednesday, cars floated in streets turned into rivers, while putrid odour filled the air as sewage from underground tanks overflowed and mixed with flood water in the Red Sea port of four million inhabitants which has no sewage system.
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