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Russia has evacuated around 2,000 people from their homes in the city of Orsk, Russian officials said on Saturday, a day after rising waters in the Ural river flooded riverside villages and caused a dam to burst.
A screen shot captured from a video shows residents being evacuated due to flooding after a dam burst in the city of Orsk, Russia, April 6, 2024. /Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations
The regional government said the people had been evacuated from the city of 230,000 near Russia's border with Kazakhstan after thousands of homes were flooded in the area, the TASS news agency reported.
Video footage published by the emergency services ministry showed residents being helped into lifeboats wearing life jackets.
On Friday, local authorities in the Ural mountains' Orenburg region, where Orsk is located, urged residents of riverside communities to evacuate after the dam burst.
A string of Russian Siberian and Urals mountain provinces and neighboring parts of Kazakhstan have been inundated by floodwaters in recent days.
Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev said the flooding may be Kazakhstan's largest natural disaster in terms of scale and impact in 80 years.
"We must learn all the lessons from these large-scale floods," he said.
(Cover: People use boats while evacuating after a part of a dam burst that caused flooding, Orsk, Russia, April 5, 2024. /CFP)