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Russia: 90,000 people displaced by floods
In Russia and Kazakhstan, nearly 90,000 people were evacuated due to terrible flooding linked to heavy rains in recent weeks and melting ice. The water is still rising and several towns are threatened.
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In Russia and Kazakhstan, nearly 90,000 people were evacuated due to terrible flooding linked to heavy rains in recent weeks and melting ice. The water is still rising and several towns are threatened.
The river has already invaded several districts of the city of Orenburg, 500,000 inhabitants and this Tuesday, April 9, the authorities are alarmist because the water continues to rise. Several tens of thousands of people have already had to be evacuated by all means in this region of southern Russia. “Tears aren’t enough anymore, it’s worse than that, I’m not well at all”, testifies a resident. These exceptional floods are visible from space. At this village, the river has spread over more than 2 km in width.
Angry residents
This is rare in Russia: residents have attacked the authorities for lack of help and maintenance of the dikes. Straddling Russia and Kazakhstan, the entire Ural River is in fact in flood. Further east, two other Russian regions, Tyumen and Kurgan, are also on alert for flooding. Each time, the same phenomenon: heavy snow during the winter which melts suddenly due to a sudden rise in temperatures, all aggravated by the heavy rains of recent days
