One person has been killed and least one another has been injured in mudflows in the northern Ayni district.
Torrential rains on June 26 and 27 caused a number of mudflows in the Zarafshon Valley (Sughd province), according to the Sughd emergency management agency.
The body of the 57-year-old resident of the Vashang village, who was reported missing since evening of June 27 after a mudflow hit the area near the village, was found Wednesday at 6.25 am, Ms. Shahzoda Buttayeva, a spokeswoman for the Sughd emergency management agency, told Asia-Plus in an interview. The man was reportedly pasturing cattle when the mudflow hit the area.
According to her, mudflows also damaged roads and agricultural fields in the Ayni district. Mudflows were also reported in villages of Langar and Revat in the Urmetan jamoat of the Ayni district.
Besides, a 16-year-old teenager from the Putkhin village in the Ayni district, who was pasturing cattle in the Tagob area, was seriously injured on June 27 in a rockfall that was caused by a mudflow. The teen is currently in hospital.
Torrential rains on June 27 caused mudflows that damaged roads in the Shahriston district.
Besides, three houses in the village of Hisor in the Shahriston district were partially damaged by the Tuesday mudflows.
Recall, torrential rains on June 26 caused a mudflow that hit the village of Amondara in the Panjakent district, Sughd province.
According to the Committee on Emergency Situations and Civil Defense (CES) under the Government of Tajikistan, the mudflow damaged 16 households in the village; six of them were destroyed completely. No injured was reported, according to the CES press center.
Residents were reportedly evacuated to safe place and all necessary assistance was provided to them. The assistance included food products and medicines; rolling kitchen was organized for the mudflow victims.
