The Emergencies Committee under the Government of Tajikistan says that according to the preliminary data, 15 residential buildings were destroyed and 9 others were partially damaged by natural disasters that hit the country on May 5, 10, 17, 18 and 25.
“256 natural disasters were registered in Tajikistan from May 3 to May 26 and according to documents submitted by emergencies commissions, the damage caused by them to the country’s economy is estimated at more than 44 million somonis,” Ms. Umeda Yusufi, a spokeswoman for the Emergencies Committee, told Asia-Plus in an interview on June 3.
According to the preliminary data, six schools and preschool institutions, 250 kilometers of roads, 27 bridges, 15.2 kilometers of electricity transmission lines, 87.7 kilometers of river bank protection works, 800 meters of communications links, 92.6 kilometers of water supply lines and canals, 14.7 kilometers of mudslide drain systems, 2 kilometers of water and sewer networks, 10 pump stations and waterworks, 25 fish ponds and 1,076 hectares of farmland were damaged by natural disasters last month.
Besides, 137 head of cattle, 501 cattle of sheep and goods, 62 head of poultry and 169 bee colonies were killed by natural disasters last month.
There is no mention of human casualties in the Emergencies Committee’s press release issued on June 3.
Recall, the Emergencies Committee said on May 6 that mudslides and floods caused by heavy rains killed three women on May 5. The mudslides were registered in Sughd and Khatlon province, and the Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Region (GBAO), as well as in several districts surrounding Dushanbe. The mudflows reportedly left dead two women in Varzob district and one woman in the village of Bodomazor, which is subordinate to the city of Istaravshan in Sughd province.
