Torrential rains overnight to June 14 caused heavy floods in Georgian capital Tbilisi. 13 people were killed, houses, roads, power lines were damaged. The territory of the Tbilisi zoo has been partially flooded. Some animals died, some, including predators, escaped from their enclosures. Damage caused by devastating floods in the city was estimated at about $23 million, according to the Georgian Prime Minister Irakliy Garibashvili. Aftermath of severe flooding in Georgian capital - in photo gallery by TASS
Aftermath of severe flooding in Georgian capital
13 people were killed. The territory of the Tbilisi zoo has been partially flooded. Some animals died, some, including predators, escaped from their enclosures
Photo {{sliderIndex+1}} from 14
A destroyed flooded zoo area in Tbilisi, Georgia
© AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin People assisting a hippopotamus that has been shot with a tranquilizer dart after it escaped from a flooded zoo. Tigers, lions, a hippopotamus and other animals have escaped from the zoo in Georgia’s capital after heavy flooding destroyed their enclosures
© AP Photo/Tinatin Kiguradze Cars in the mud at a flooded zoo area in Tbilisi
© AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin A runaway bear sitting on the window of the second floor of a building on the flooded street in Tbilisi
© EPA/BESO GULASHVILI/GEORGIAN PRIME MINISTER'S PRESS SERVICE Municipal workers cleaning an area around a flooded zoo area
© AP Photo/Shakh Aivazov A police car driving on a flooded street in Tbilisi
© EPA/BESO GULASHVILI/GEORGIAN PRIME MINISTER'S PRESS SERVICE