Kura River bursts two dams in Azerbaijan, population is being evacuated

River broke through the two dams on its section passing through Mursalli village, representative of the Executive Power of  Sabirabad region told Trend. The result was a threat of flooding of Ulajali and Shikhlar villages in Sabirabad region. The population of these villages is being evacuated.

The evacuation of areas affected by natural disaster: Bayramli settlement of Shirvan city and Garaguney, Dadashbeyli, Moranli, Bala Hashimkhanli villages of Sabirabad region has been already completed. The evacuation of five more villages, which may be flooded, is ongoing.

In Shirvan city and Sabirabad region up to four thousand evacuees housed in tents.

In recent days, floods occurred in 40 districts of Azerbaijan due to rise in Kur River and rainfalls. As a result of the disaster, about 20,000 houses were flooded, more than 300 destroyed, 2,000 became unsafe, 50,000 hectares of cultivated land left under water.

Currently one meter drop is recorded in the level of Kur River in certain territories, Azerbaijani minister of emergency situations Kamaladdin Heydarov briefed the media earlier on Monday.

"We are already out of critical situation. Now works are carried out to restore the dams and will be completed within two or three days," he said.

Necessary work is being carried out to ensure normal living conditions of the evacuated population of nine villages, said Heydarov.


/Trend/