About two thousand people had to be evacuated from their homes due to flooding in the city of Orsk, Russia, this Saturday. The water level of the Ural River rose and flooded coastal villages, causing the dam to collapse, causing the Ural River to advance. Reuters. In this city, near the Russian border with Kazakhstan, thousands of houses were flooded.
On Friday, local authorities already appealed to the population of Orenburg, in the Ural Mountains where Orsk is located, to evacuate their homes.
According to the news agency, in recent days several Russian provinces in Siberia and the Urals, as well as neighboring regions of Kazakhstan, have been flooded with water.
Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev said that floods could become the largest natural disaster in the country in the last 80 years in terms of scale and consequences.
“We must learn all the lessons from these large-scale floods,” Kassym-Jomart Tokayev said, as quoted by the publication. Reuters.
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