Flood summary from Astra, the situation on the morning of April 15. The water level in the Tobol River near Kurgan exceeded 6 meters. Evacuation siren sounds in the city

As of 8 a.m. on April 15, the water level in Tobol has risen to 631 cm. Yesterday it reached 491 cm. Evacuation is being carried out in Kurgan. Earlier, the governor of the Kurgan region, Vadim Shumkov, said that when the water level reaches 6 meters, flooding of the right bank of the Tobol and the low part of the left bank will begin.

In Tomsk, the water level in the Tom River rose by almost a meter in one day. Yesterday, the embankment dam near the Communal Bridge began to erode.

In Orenburg, the water level dropped by 18 cm per day. In the city, 10,656 household plots and 5,503 houses, including 55 apartment buildings, remain flooded.

In Kazakhstan, over 108.000 persons were evacuated from the flood zone, the country’s Ministry of Emergency Situations reported.

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