The village of Kaminskoye in Russia\u2019s Kurgan region was being evacuated on Friday morning after the water level there rose 1.4 metres (4.59 ft) overnight, regional governor Vadim Shumkov said on the Telegram messaging app.
\nKaminskoye is a settlement along the Tobol river which also flows through the regional centre Kurgan, a city of 300,000 people. Shumkov said a deluge could reach Kurgan in the coming days.
\n\u201cWe can only hope the floodplain stretches wide and the ground absorbs as much water as possible in its way,\u201d he said, adding that a dam was being reinforced in Kurgan.
\nIn the city of Orenburg on the Ural river, hundreds of houses were flooded overnight, the RIA news agency reported citing deputy mayor Alexei Kudinov.
\nHe said the deluge was expected to reach its peak on Friday and start subsiding in two days\u2019 time.
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The village of Kaminskoye in Russia’s Kurgan region is being evacuated due to a 1.4-meter rise in water levels overnight. The regional governor, Vadim Shumkov, stated that the flood could also impact the city of Kurgan in the coming days. In Orenburg, hundreds of houses were flooded overnight, with the deluge expected to peak on Friday and begin subsiding in two days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":7861,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"Default","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1521,5408,5192,4873,4876,5404,5098,4407,4086,3331,5843,3839,19,2173,962,18],"class_list":["post-7860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-other","tag-1521","tag-dam","tag-evacuation","tag-flood","tag-flooding","tag-floods","tag-governor","tag-hope","tag-mayor","tag-news","tag-regional-centre","tag-river","tag-russia","tag-settlement","tag-water","tag-world"],"acf":{"keyphrase":"","keywords":"","sourceimg":"","country-category":""},"yoast_head":"\n