Wednesday, September 7, 2016

The head of Ministry of Emergency Situations reported to Putin about the tense situation in Primorye – BBC News

More than 40 villages flooded in Primorye, the situation is tense, reported Puchkov Putin.

According to Tass head of Ministry of Emergency Situations Vladimir Puchkov said at a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

According Puchkova, 40 settlements were flooded, and 43 are cut off from the outside world as a result of an emergency situation in the region. As a result, in the disaster area were 14 thousand people

He said that in the Primorye Territory, the situation remains very tense -. Restoration work scheduled to be completed by September next year. Under the impact of elements fell apart villages, 70 bridges, more than 200 kilometers of roads and 10 thousand hectares of agricultural land.

Puchkov told the president that the rescue and emergency and recovery operation involved more than 19 thousand emergency workers and 1150 pieces of equipment. Effective air bridge by which helicopters Mi-8 and Mi-26 carried more than 150 people in Vladivostok and other regions. Are seven temporary boat crossings.

Minister for Emergency Situations said that more than 200 people are in temporary shelters, where organized room meals and doctors and social workers work.

Implemented by vaccination of the population – vaccines made nearly two thousand people. From the Reserve Fund of the Russian government allocated 718 million rubles and a half for the payment of financial assistance to victims. Besides financial assistance is provided Primorye power.

In turn, Putin instructed Puchkov as quickly as possible to calculate the extent of the damage. Head of Emergency Situations Ministry said that definitively assess the damage will be possible only after the third blow of elements and maintenance of water.

After a powerful cyclone, which brought heavy rains, 29-31 August typhoon hit Primorye “Layonrok”. As a result, in a short time, the three-month norm of precipitation fell in the region. Because the powerful floods has been declared federal disaster mode. 4-6 September Primorye visited typhoon “Nemteun” which brought even further to three ten-day norms of precipitation.

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