Russia and Kazakhstan evacuated more than 100,000 people after the severe flooding

Russia and Kazakhstan ordered more than 100,000 people to evacuate after the region's worst flooding in at least 70 years. The disaster was caused by the rapid melting of the snow, which led to a rise in the river level.
The flow of melting water flooded dozens of villages in the Ural Mountains, Siberia and regions of Kazakhstan located near rivers such as the Ural and Tobol, which local authorities said rose by meters in a few hours to the highest levels ever recorded, reported Cyprus News.
The Ural River, Europe's third largest river, which flows through Russia and Kazakhstan and flows into the Caspian Sea, burst an embankment on March 5 and flooded the city of Orsk.
Downriver, the water level in Orenburg, a city of about 550,000, is rising.
Sirens in Kurgan, a city on the Tobol River, are warning people to evacuate immediately. A state of emergency was also declared in Tyumen, a major oil-producing region in Western Siberia.
"Difficult days for the Kurgan and Tyumen regions are still ahead," Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said.
Vladimir Putin spoke with his Kazakh counterpart Kasim-Jomart Tokayev, where more than 86,000 people were evacuated due to flooding. Tokaev said the floods were probably the worst in 80 years.
The worst affected regions are Atyrau, Aktobe, Akmolin, Kostanay, East Kazakhstan, North Kazakhstan and Pavlodar Oblasts, most of which border Russia and are crossed by rivers originating in Russia, such as the Ural and Tobol.
In Russia, anger erupted in Orsk when at least 100 people chanted "shame on you" against local officials who they said had done too little./BGNES