Topic: Kazakhstan

Kazakh president wants prosecutions over flooding

Kazakhstan's strongman President Nursultan Nazarbayev on Saturday called for prosecutions against those to blame for the bursting of a dam that unleashed massive flooding and killed 35 people. Torrential rains and early melting snow triggered the bursting of the reservoir dam outside the village of Kyzyl-Agash in the region ...
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Kazakhstan flooding death toll rises to 35

Kazakhstan flooding death toll rises to 35, prompting calls for criminal investigationThe death toll from a massive flood that devastated a village in southern Kazakhstan has soared to 35, the country's president said Saturday. A privately owned dam at a reservoir in the eastern Almaty region neighboring China ruptured ...
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Death toll in Kazakhtsan flood rises to 35

ALMATY (Reuters) - The death toll from a flood that destroyed a village in southern Kazakhstan has risen to 35, the country's president said on Saturday. Thousands of people were evacuated a day earlier after severe floods, caused by an abrupt rise in spring temperatures, ruined two dams and the ...
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At least 25 dead, thousands evacuated in Kazakh floods

At least 25 people were killed and thousands evacuated from their homes in southern Kazakhstan Friday when two burst dams unleash massive flooding, officials said. Flood waters from rivers swollen by unusually heavy winter snowfalls and an early spring spilled over the walls of a dam in the southern Aksuisky ...
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