Prime Minister Rasoul Qohirzoda arrived in the flooding site in the Darvoz district of the Gorno Badakhshan Autonomous Region (GBAO) yesterday afternoon for the purpose of closely monitoring the situation.
The prime minister reportedly inspected houses in the village of Khostav that were damaged by a June 8 flooding and the area near the village of Shirgovad, where rural road was flooded.
Meanwhile, the highway connecting Dushanbe and the GBAO administrative center, Khorog, through Kulob is still closed for traffic, but people can use the highway connecting Dushanbe and Khorog through the Sangvor (formerly Tavildara) district and the Khoburabot Pass
The issue of resettlement of disaster-affected families to safer places is still under consideration, according to the GBAO administration.
Recall, twenty-two houses were damaged by the flooding; fortunately, no injured was reported. The flooding victims were temporarily housed in tents.
The work on assessing the actual damage caused to the Darvoz district by the disaster is under way. Rescuers are working in the site to mitigate effects of the flooding.
