Tens of thousands of people were displaced following devastating floods after major rivers burst their banks in northern Kazakhstan and Russia.
More than 125,000 people have been displaced by flooding in Russia’s southern Ural region and northern Kazakhstan, authorities said on Monday.
Swiftly melting snow swelled several rivers in the region last week, including the Ural, Europe’s third-largest river, with authorities saying that water levels had risen by meters in a matter of hours to the highest levels ever recorded.
Authorities said floodwaters continue to rise, posing further threats.
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More than 125,000 people have been displaced by flooding in Russia’s southern Ural region and northern Kazakhstan, authorities said on Monday.
Swiftly melting snow swelled several rivers in the region last week, including the Ural, Europe’s third-largest river, with authorities saying that water levels had risen by meters in a matter of hours to the highest levels ever recorded.
Some 1,000 homes were flooded in the North Kazakhstan region, and over 5,000 people had been evacuated, local officials said.
People were queuing up in front of water trucks moving from one neighbourhood to another in the badly affected city of Petropavlovsk in North Kazakhstan.
The main reservoir supplying the city with drinkable water has been flooded.
Just a few hundred kilometres over the border, Russia’s Kurgan, a region of 800,000 people at the confluence of the Ural mountains and Siberia, was grappling with flooding and rising water levels in the Tobol River.
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