Due to torrential rains during the last ten days, the Elegest and Durgen Rivers have swelled and flooded two settlements in Tuva-- the Elegest villiage and the Bai-Khaak villiage, located in two neighboring districts, Chedi Khol and Todzha. Last night more than six hundred people were evacuated from those villiages by helicopter. In the first villiage seventy-three children and around fifty adults were rescued from rooftops and other high places. In the second villiage five hundred local residents had to abandon their homes.
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