Russia: Floods forced tens of thousands of people to evacuate

Russia's Emergency Situation Ministry on August 19 said the country's Far East is suffering a serious flood when 6,018 houses in Amur, Khabarovsk provinces and Jewish autonomous regions are sunk in water and more than 20,000 people were evacuated.

According to the source, Amur is the most severely affected province when there are 5,370 households, 420 hectares of crops, hundreds of public buildings flooded by water.

Severe floods in the Russian Far East.(Source: RIA Novosti)

Floods also destroyed 60 bridges and 463km of roads were badly damaged.

In Khabarovsk, 12 residential areas, where about 900 people live, and hundreds of hectares of crops are also submerged in water.

Meanwhile, the Jewish autonomous region is in a similar situation when hundreds of hectares of crops, transport works, bridges and houses . are destroyed by floodwaters.

Currently, local and central Russian authorities are mobilizing all available forces to ensure that people in flooded areas receive adequate food and medical support, as well as needs. demand other essential activities.

Aleksandr Frolov, director of the Russian Meteorological Agency, said that in the next three days it is forecasted that rainfall will drop sharply, while water levels in the Far East rivers have stabilized. However, the situation in the Khabarovsk region and the autonomous region of the Jews may become worse.