The Hindu : Floods hit health resort

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Saturday, Aug 10, 2002

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Floods hit health resort

By Vladimir Radyuhin

MOSCOW: Dozens of people are feared dead in mudslides and floods in Russia's popular health resort on the Black Sea as Southern Russia has been hit by heavy rains for the second time this summer. Rescue workers recovered 19 bodies so far near the Black Sea port of Novorossiisk, but the death toll from Thursday's flooding is likely to rise much higher, with over 100 people listed missing. The health resort, stretching for kilometres along a narrow coastline squeezed between the Caucasian mountains and the Black Sea, was packed with summer holidaymakers when torrents of water and mud gushing from the hills swept people, cars and houses into the sea. Floods also cut railways and power lines and washed away bridges. Thousands of people are being evacuated from around Abrau-Dyurso, as a dam overlooking the village gave way and 3 million cubic metres of water could pour down any moment, Russian television said.

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