Communications lines connecting flood-hit villages with region center broken down in Azerbaijan

The population of three villages of Sabirabad region - Mursalli, Umajali and Shihlar was completely evacuated. The population was partially evacuated from the village of Buldug, MP Rustam Khalilov said.

He said that 20-meter-high dams were destroyed in the village of Mursalli on May 10 and in the Umajali village on May 11.

Floods in 40 Azerbaijani regions have been recently registered. About 20,000 houses were flooded, more than 300 destroyed, 2,000 were in emergency condition, 50,000 hectares of cultivated land became trapped under flood water.


/Trend/