6,200 houses flooded, 22,000 people evacuated in Russian
More than 6,200 houses
have been flooded and almost 22,500 people evacuated in the Russian
Far East, the Emergencies Ministry said on Saturday, August 24, reports Itar-Tass.
A total of 6,266 dwelling houses where
33,097 people live remain inundated in 123 populated localities of 25
municipalities in the Far Eastern Federal District - Amur Region,
Jewish Autonomous Region and Khabarovsk Territory, the ministry said.
It said that 191 sections of local roads
and 69 bridges are under water. Rescuers have evacuated 22,477
people, including 7,022 children, and set up 121 temporary
accommodation centres.
The worst situation is in Khabarovsk
Territory. “The rise of the water has slowed down. Work to build dams
and other emergency and restorative work is underway,” the ministry
said.
The situation in the Amur Region is
slowly improving. The authorities are paying compensation to those
affected. However 70 settlements in 15 districts remain flooded. Over
the past 24 hours, water has receded in ten settlements. Repair
teams have rebuilt 8.5 km of 458 km of roads and four of 65 bridges
damaged by the floods.
In the Jewish Autonomous Region the
level of water has virtually not changed over the past 24 hours.
“Preparations have begun for restorative work,” the ministry said.
The floods have damaged 918 dwelling
houses in 25 settlements of six municipalities, including the capital
city of Birobidzhan. A total of 4,002 garden plots and ten social
institutions were inundated, 8,287 people were evacuated, 1,389
people, including 569 children, are staying at temporary accommodation
centres.
Volunteers have started vaccinating the local population against dysentery.
According to weather forecasts, the Amur
may rise to the maximum level of 780-830 cm only if the worse comes
to the worst. “We expect 750-780 cm,” the Emergencies Ministry said.
Meanwhile, a new group of 135 rescuers
has flown out of Krasnoyarsk, south of Western Siberia, to the Amur
Region. They are carrying ten mobile power plants and 80 oil
radiators with them.
Earlier in the day, an Ilyushin-76
transport plane with 83 rescuers and almost 30 boats aboard left
Yekaterinburg in the Urals and headed to Khabarovsk.
Rescuers are being redeployed to the Far
East from all Russian regions. An Ilyushin-76 plane with a team of
medics and a mobile hospital flew out of Ramenskoye outside Moscow
to Khabarovsk earlier on Saturday.
“The Emergencies Ministry’s planes have
made 29 flights and transported 363 people and 19.5 tonnes of
cargoes,” the ministry’s spokesperson Irina Rossius said.
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