Two people have died in flooding in the Derbent district of Dagestan, the TASS news agency reported, citing the republic’s emergency medicine center.
“Unfortunately, we were unable to save a pregnant woman and a minor,” a center representative told the agency.
Several people had been pulled from the river after being swept away when a bridge on the federal Kavkaz highway collapsed near the settlement of Kala, Derbent district head Elman Allakhverdiyev said on the evening of April 5.
Two more people are missing, Dagestan’s Civil Defense, Emergencies and Disaster Relief Minister Nariman Kazimagomedov said on the morning of April 6.
On April 5, rising water levels at the Gedzhukh reservoir caused a breach in a hydraulic engineering complex in the Derbent district. Several cars carrying passengers were swept off the federal Kavkaz highway. By the morning of April 6, more than 4,000 people had been evacuated from four neighborhoods in Dagestan’s Derbent district.
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