Shelters open in flooded Russia's Orenburg region

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7 個月前

STORY: The Russian city of Orenburg battled rising water levels on Thursday after major rivers across Russia and Kazakhstan burst their banks in the worst flooding seen in the areas in nearly a century.

Whole areas of the city were underwater, and the Ural River rose swiftly to over 35 feet (10.87 meters), far above the level considered by local authorities as safe.

The deluge of melt water has forced over 120,000 people from their homes in Russia's Ural Mountains, Siberia and Kazakhstan as major rivers such as the Ural, which flows through Kazakhstan into the Caspian, overwhelmed embankments.