In Photos: Russia's Orenburg Region Hit With Worst Flooding in Decades
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Deluge overwhelms scores of settlements in the Ural Mountains, Siberia and areas of Kazakhstan close to rivers
The Ural River which flows through Russia and Kazakhstan into the Caspian, burst through an embankment dam on Friday, flooding the city of Orsk just south of the Ural Mountains. Also, the water levels in the Russian city of Orenburg rose towards the critical level of 9.3 metres as sirens warned major floods were imminent, as per Reuters.
The flooding was caused by a deluge of swiftly melted snow.
Water levels in overflowing rivers were still rising on Tuesday in swathes of Russia and Kazakhstan that have been hit by massive floods, as cities braced for a new peak in the southern Urals and western Siberia.