Landslide falls in Bagebi, blocks road near Tbilisi
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A landslide has blocked the road that connects Georgia’s capital Tbilisi to nearby summer resort areas Tskneti and Betania.
This evening a large rock and some land fell in Bagebi in the outskirts of Tbilisi’s Vake district, and into the valley, causing potential for the river to dam and flood.
Near Bagebi ravine is an electricity substation and several buildings. If the river swells, it will flood the substation and nearby buildings.
Georgia’s Deputy Environment Minsiter Temur Murghulia said a plan of action will be created in the coming hours to avoid the river from swelling. A special team will execute the plan, he said.
The latest landslide was smaller than the landslide which caused major flooding in Tbilisi on Saturday night but still caused damage to some houses and back yards.
Currently volunteers are cleaning the ravine from the fallen rock pieces.
Georgia’s Ministry of Environment Protection created a video which reconstructs the events of the terrible disaster of Saturday night.
Solidarity is the best word to describe the situation in Tbilisi today as hundreds volunteered to help the affected families and clean the city’s streets after Saturday night’s deadly flood.
Georgia is mourning the loss of a dozen people who died in a major flash flood in capital city Tbilisi on Saturday night.
Take a look at this incredible aerial video shot by drone above the Vere river valley in central Tbilisi. The footage shows the scale of the damage caused by the Saturday night flood.
Updated: 7.43pm: The bodies of two more victims of the Tbilisi flood have been found this evening, bringing the death toll to 19.
All rescue and cleaning works have been suspended in Tbilisi’s most affected district, as the weather is forecast to worsen this evening.
No wild animals are on the loose in the Georgian capital. All beasts that escaped from Tbilisi Zoo during the weekend’s flooding have been accounted for.
One man has been killed after he was attacked by a white tiger in central Tbilisi this afternoon. The special operation by police took three hours and resulted in the tiger being killed.
A criminal case has been filed for negligence following today’s deadly tiger attack in central Tbilisi.
The Tskneti-Betania road is currently the most dangerous place in Georgia’s capital city. World-leading specialist in environmental hazards and risk management, Italian geologist Claudio Margottini said the situation was "rather difficult” and future landslides could be repeated if heavy rainfall began again.
Experts are warning a landslide at the Tskneti-Betania road could be repeated if heavy rainfall begins again.
A Memorandum of Understanding signed today between Georgia’s National Environment Agency and Poland’s Embassy to Georgia envisaged allocating €30,000 (80, 242 GEL) to Georgia to purchase the modern equipment.
The rehabilitation of Tskneti-Betania road, which was damaged during a flood on June 13, 2015, will come to end in June.
The 4-kilometer-long section of Tskneti-Samadlo and Tskneti-Akhaldaba road, which was damaged during a flood on June 13, 2015, has opened, announces the Georgian Ministry of Infrastructure.