Floods Drive 6000 Russians To Flee To Safety

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A resident looks at his flooded house in Manastirea village, 100 kilometers (62 miles) east of Bucharest, Romania, Thursday, April 27, 2006. Thousands of flood victims spent a fourth day in tents on hills overlooking the Danube while hundreds more waited anxiously to see whether the river would inundate their community. Photo courtesy of Daniel Mihailescu and AFP.

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Moscow (AFP) May 03, 2006
Serious flooding has affected parts of Russia, and in particular Siberia, forcing 6,000 people to leave their submerged homes, the Russian emergency situations ministry said Tuesday. The evacuation of several hundred people had begun, it said. The worst flooding hit Byisk in Altay region of eastern Siberia where 1,350 houses were flooded, the ministry said.

About 5,000 people, 1,250 of them children, were driven from their homes. Only 317 people, 106 of them children, have been evacuated but the authorities were trying to build a tent city to give emergency shelter to 2,800 people.

Flooding linked to the melting of snow is a regular springtime occurrence in Russia. In May 2005, more than 4,000 people living in the Russian Caucasus, Chechnya and Dagestan had to be evacuated following major flooding.

Source: Agence France-Presse

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