DUSHANBE, May 12, 2016, Asia-Plus — More than 1140 residential buildings have been affected by a May 11 flooding in Roudaki district, according to the Committee for Emergency Situations and Civil Defense (CES) under the Government of Tajikistan.
Torrential rain on May 11 reportedly caused flooding that damaged more than 1140 residential buildings in the villages of Adolat, Sadoqat, Fayzobod, Komsomol-1 and Komsomol-2 in the Zaynobiddin jamoat of the Roudaki district.
Rescue teams of the Dushanbe emergency management agency and servicemen of the Dushanbe garrison have participated in mitigating effects of the natural disaster.
The families whose houses were destroyed were moved to a safer area and no casualties have been reported, an official source at CES said.
Meanwhile, local residents say two children are missing after heavy rain and flooding pounded the area last Wednesday. Search for the children is going on.
Flooding and mudslides have also damaged settlements in Fayzobod, Hisor, Shahriston and Panjakent districts.
We will recall that mudslides caused by heavy rains killed three people in northern Tajikistan on May 9. Two residents of the village of Revad in the Ayni district — 41-year-old Lola Tuighunova and her 18-year-old son, Ismat Rustamov — were killed by mudslides. The mudslides also killed Toshboi Khujamqulov, a 56-year-old resident of the village of Shurcha in the Panjakent district.
The mudslides have reportedly damaged numerous homes, major infrastructure, and municipal buildings in the area.
Meanwhile, one person was killed as a huge rock hit a car on the Dushanbe-Khujand highway, near the village of Khushekat in the Ayni district of Sughd province on May 11.
