A mudflow has affected 70 households in the Amondara village in the Panjakent district, Sughd province; three of them have been damaged partially and four others have been destroyed completely, according to the Committee on Emergency Situations and Civil Defense (CES) under the Government of Tajikistan.
The mudflow hit the village on June 26; fortunately no injured was reported, Ms. Umeda Yusupova, a spokeswoman for CES, told Asia-Plus in an interview.
According to her, residents were 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.
A special commission and local authorities are currently working in the mudflow site to assess actual damage caused to the village.
Recall, torrential rains on 27 caused a number of mudflows in the Zarafshon Valley (Sughd province). According to the Sughd emergency management agency, one person was killed and at least one another injured in mudflows in the northern Ayni district on June 27.
The body of the 57-year-old resident of the Vashang village, who was reportedly 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.
Mudflows reportedly 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.
Mudflows, caused by recent torrential rains, also hit some areas in the Asht district of Sughd province.
