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Russian Floods’ Survivors Blame Authorities As Death Toll Tops 100

© Photo : Konstantin KosarevDeadly floods in the Krasnodar Region
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Residents of the southern Russia’s city of Krymsk, the most affected by Saturday’s severe floods, blamed authorities for opening reservoirs what as they say could have caused a sudden wave of water that had swept the city.

Residents of the southern Russia’s city of Krymsk, the most affected by Saturday’s severe floods, blamed authorities for opening reservoirs what as they say could have caused a sudden wave of water that had swept the city.

“Reservoirs in Krymsk have been opened at night. No one had warned the people about it. A half of the city has been flooded, a lot of people have been killed,” Bogdan Tolchek, Krymsk’s resident, wrote in his blog.

According to the latest information, Russia’s worst flood in decades killed at least 103 people and injured 91 in Krasnodar region with the majority of the victims died in the town of Krymsk, the Interior Ministry said.

Irina Kizilbasheva, a journalist from the local TV channel told the on-line news website Gazeta.ru that there was a powerful stream of water that had swept Krymsk overnight.


“People are distressed, they say that no one had warned them about the flood. We have found several streets where people’s corpses were lying on the ground…” Kizilbasheva said.

The regional authorities however called the people’s claims “a complete nonsense.”

“It’s a complete nonsense. It’s all rumors. Unfortunately, word of mouth is quicker than the official information,” a spokeswoman of the Krasnodar region’s governor told the Ekho Moskvy radio station, adding that there are no any reservoirs on the territory of the Krymsk district that can be opened.

The spokeswoman also dismissed the information that the authorities had not warned the residents about the possible flood.

The residents just did not want to leave their houses, she said.

Those people whose houses have been totally destroyed by the floods will receive 100,000-ruble compensation (about $3,000), Russia’s Emergencies Minister Vladimir Puchkov said on Saturday, adding that 50,000 rubles ($1,500) will be paid to the residents whose dwellings had been partially-destroyed.

 

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