2024-04-09 23:47:03
In ten regions of Kazakhstan, as well as in Russia’s western Siberia and Orenburg regions, rivers have been flooding for several days, entire cities and villages have been flooded. Both Moscow and Astana have declared a state of emergency.
“More than 86,000 people have been rescued and evacuated since the beginning of the floods. people,” the Kazakh government said on Tuesday. According to her, 3,365 residential buildings were flooded in five regions of the huge Central Asian country.
The government announced that it is providing humanitarian aid to the affected regions. President Kasim Zomartas Tokaevs called the floods one of the worst natural disasters in 80 years.
Emergency services in neighboring Russia said Tuesday that 10,550 residential buildings had been flooded, mostly in the Orenburg region, and more than 6,500 people had been evacuated there.
The Ural River has almost completely flooded the city of Orsk and is now approaching dangerous levels in the main city of Orenburg. In the last 24 hours, 550 thousand In the populous city of Orenburg, the river rose by 25 centimeters, officials said on Tuesday.
Villages under water
Orenburg Mayor Sergey Salmin said on Tuesday that the situation in eight villages near Orenburg is “critical”.
Rivers also flood in the Kurgan and Tyumen regions of Western Siberia. Officials in Kurgan, a city near Kazakhstan, said on Tuesday that 689 people had been evacuated due to the overflowing Tobol River. About 300 thousand the mayor’s office of the populous city of Kurgan reported that flooding could reach the local airport.
In one village of the Kurgan region, Zverinogolovsk, the water of the Tobol River rose by 74 centimeters in just two hours, Russian media reported.
Russian Emergency Situations Minister Alexander Kurenkov went to the Orenburg Region on Tuesday. The ministry reported that he will visit Kurgan and Tyumen regions.
She posted a video of A. Kurenkov flying over the flooded areas in a helicopter, with huge expanses of water and submerged villages visible to the horizon.
2024-04-09 23:47:03