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Twelve die in Siberia floods
by Staff Writers
Moscow (AFP) July 1, 2019

Twelve people have died and nine are missing after heavy rainfall flooded dozens of villages in Russia's southeastern Siberia, the deputy prime minister said Monday.

A state of emergency has been declared in Siberia's Irkutsk region, where dozens of villages have been partially destroyed by floods after river levels began rising dramatically.

"Unfortunately, twelve people have died and nine are being searched for," Vitaly Mutko said during a government meeting in the Moscow region.

Mutko said some 32,700 people in 83 villages were affected by the floods.

"751 were injured, 153 have been hospitalised," he added.

Infrastructure has also been affected, he said, with around 13 roads and several bridges damaged.

Russia's defence ministry said it had sent more than 1,300 servicemen, vehicles, a plane and two helicopters to the affected areas.

Earlier on Monday, the country's emergency situations ministry said it had evacuated 2,273 people.

Russian President Vladimir Putin visited the region on Sunday, on his way back from the G20 summit in Japan.

He held a meeting with local authorities in Bratsk, a city 4,820 kilometres (3,000 miles) east of Moscow on the Angara River.

The Russian leader called on authorities to compensate those who suffered from the floods and to begin work repairing houses.

"Here the summer is short, winter comes quickly, there is very little time," Putin said in a video published by the Kremlin.


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Indonesian teen wakeboards waterlogged streets to protest floods
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A group of teenagers in Indonesia are wakeboarding the submerged streets of their hometown to protest against the urban flooding that regularly plagues much of the tropical archipelago. After several days of heavy rains in Samarinda city, on Borneo island, the fed-up group launched their waterlogged demonstration in a now-viral Instagram video. Curious onlookers gaped as Muhammad Fahri Ramadhan, 19, showed off a few tricks as he carved-up the dirty, waist-high water - pulled by a car instead of ... read more

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