Russia, Kazakhstan evacuate over 100,000 people amid flooding
Deluge overwhelms scores of settlements in the Ural Mountains, Siberia and areas of Kazakhstan close to rivers
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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.
Thousands of residents in Russia and Kazakhstan were affected by the worst flood in the area. Read more here.
"Rodents chewed through the dam," - the director of the Russian construction company that built the dam said on air.