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Heavy rains flood villages in Russia’s climate-scarred Far East – Asia Pacific News News – Report by AFR

Heavy rains have flooded several villages in Yakutia in Russia’s Far East region, authorities said on Tuesday.

Yakutia has been hit hard in recent summers by extreme weather patterns – including wildfires and floods – that scientists say are linked to climate change.

Such extreme weather events are expected to become more frequent, longer lasting and more intense in the future.

The Yakutia government said the rains destroyed structures around a dam and “almost completely” flooded a remote village in Siberia.

Dozens of people had to leave their homes, it said.

“Due to heavy rains on July 11, despite the installation of protective structures, a dam broke and almost completely flooded the village of Betenkes,” the Yakutian government wrote on the messaging app Telegram.

The small village is located on the banks of the Adycha River in north-eastern Siberia.

“At 7:00 a.m. this morning, the water level reached a critical 1,000 centimeters (33 feet),” the local government said.

It said 36 houses had been flooded and more than 100 properties.

A dozen people were in temporary accommodation, while 72 others were staying with relatives, she added.

The local government released photos of rescuers on a small boat leading horses through the flooded village, surrounded by wooden houses lying low in the water.

It also said authorities were working to bring supplies to other flooded villages.

She posted a video on Telegram of a propeller plane being loaded with more than two tons of food for flood victims in the remote village of Suordakh in western Yakutia.

The plane will then take elderly people and children from the village to the region’s capital, Yakutsk.

Floods in recent days have damaged 85 houses in Suordakh where 317 people live, authorities said.

Russian President Vladimir Putin expressed skepticism about climate change early in his tenure, but in recent years has ordered his administration to protect Russia from the effects of changing weather.

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