(Reuters) – Dozens of houses were flooded in the Russian-annexed peninsula of Crimea on Monday and people were evacuated from towns after heavy rainfall caused a river to burst its banks, local authorities said.
The Biyuk-Karasu river overflowed for the first time in history on Monday, the Tass news agency reported, prompting officials to introduce a state of emergency in the Belogorsky district in the south of the peninsula.
The equivalent of a month’s rainfall fell overnight in Crimea and river levels rose by up to two metres. The region’s emergency ministry warned of the possibility of mudslides as rain continued on Monday.
(Reporting by Reuters; Editing by Edmund Blair)
