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Over 135,000 people affected by flood in Russia's Far East

14,000 houses, 1,600 kilometers of roads, 174 bridges and 825 social important facilities were damaged
Photo ITAR-TASS/Sergei Bobylev
Photo ITAR-TASS/Sergei Bobylev

MOSCOW, September 17 (Itar-Tass) – Over 135,000 people were affected by the devastating flood in the Russian Far East, 14,000 houses were damaged, Russian Deputy Prime Minister and presidential plenipotentiary representative in the Far Eastern Federal District Yuri Trutnev said here on Tuesday.

“As of today over 135,000 people were affected by the flood in the Russian Far East, 14,000 houses, 1,600 kilometers of roads, 174 bridges and 825 social important facilities were damaged,” he said at a visiting session of the government committee for the cleanup of the flood in the Far East in Khabarovsk.