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Event:
FF Flash Flood
Number:
2014-000048
Country:
KAZ Kazakhstan
Location:
Date (YMD):
2014-4-10
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Information Source:
IFRC
Comments:
A flash flood triggered by a dam burst killed five people and injured nine others in Kazakhstan's northern Karaganda region (oblast). The overflowing water flooded up to 354 houses in Kokpekty village after the dam of a water storage basin had burst at 1:30 a.m. on 31 March 2014. Some 400 inhabitants were evacuated, and 5 bodies were found by rescuers as the flood water reached as high as 1.5-1.8 meters in the village.
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