Over 10,000 homes submerged, thousands evacuated amid floods in Russia
More than 10,400 residential houses have been flooded across Russia’s western Siberia, the Volga region, and the Central Federal District.
The Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations made this known on Monday.
In the severely-hit Orenburg Region, more than 6,100 people have been evacuated, and 33 temporary accommodation centres have been deployed for 33,000 people, the ministry said.
The Orenburg Regional government said the peak of the flood would be expected on April 10, adding that the situation along the Ural River would not be expected to normalise before April 25.
The TASS news agency, citing information from the Ministry of Emergency Situations, said that more than 18,000 people were in the zone threatened by flooding.
The agency reported that data from April 7 to 11 pointed to a continuous rise in daily average temperatures, snowmelt, and river thawing across Siberia, the Volga region, and the Central Federal District.
This is expected to exacerbate the flood risks to low-lying areas and transportation infrastructure.
(Xinhua/NAN)
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