2024-07-07 20:24:29
Seven children were among the 49 people who drowned in Russia on Saturday as a heat wave gripped large parts of the country, the Emergencies Ministry said today, Reuters reported.
“A total of 65 incidents were registered in the country in the last 24 hours, 49 people died,” the ministry announced in Telegram.
This is 10 more incidents than the number of drownings on the same day a year ago, RIA Novosti reports.
Last week, Russians endured some of the hottest weather in more than a century, with Moscow breaking a record set in 1917 and a number of cities in the world’s largest country enduring temperatures above 35 degrees Celsius. broadcasts BTA.
The Russian Hydrometeorological Service said on Friday that southern and European parts of Russia are expected to experience unusually hot weather over the weekend, with temperatures expected to exceed 40 degrees Celsius in some places.
In the Nizhny Novgorod region of central Russia, a 10-year-old girl drowned in the Volga River, and her six-year-old sister is missing, divers are still searching for her. In Bashkiria, which lies between the Volga River and the Ural Mountains, three people drowned, including a 16-year-old girl, the ministry said.