Tbilisi flood: Three missing people feared dead
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Three people remain missing following the June 13 deadly flash flood that tore through Georgia’s capital city Tbilisi.
Today the country’s Interior Minister Vakhtang Gomelauri said there was almost no hope the three missing people would be found alive and efforts now focused on finding and recovering the bodies of the victims.
The natural disaster hit Tbilisi overnight on June 13 and claimed the lives of 19 people. Hundreds more lost their homes. Four days after the disaster, a local man was attacked and killed by a tiger that had escaped from Tbilisi Zoo in the flood.
Specialist crews now operated heavy machinery on affected Tbilisi streets to clean the city after the flooding.
Minister Gomelauri said there one rescue officer stood at each vehicle to monitor the recovery process. These officers were tasked with stopping the machinery and continue working with their hands if any of the missing bodies appeared under the debris.
Special recovery teams will spend the day clearing debris, removing mud and pumping water from water-clogged animal cages at Tbilisi Zoo and nearby territory to help the city recover from the June 13 deadly flash flood.
From tomorrow volunteers will no longer be able to participate in cleaning activities in flooded Tbilisi due to safety concerns.
The international community is offering assistance and standing in solidarity with Georgia and its people following the deadly flood that hit Tbilisi on Saturday night.
Fourteen people who were reported missing after Sunday morning’s deadly Tbilisi flood have shown up safe and well and are now recovering from their ordeal with their loved ones.
Tbilisi has been saved from a potential disaster after two metal drums containing liquid chlorine were found among the Tbilisi flood debris and recovered.
Every single family whose house was destroyed in the June 13 flash flood will have a roof over their heads, promises Georgian authorities.
Experts clearing flood debris have uncovered two cars from within the 900 metre tunnel at the mouth of the Mtkvari and Vere rivers in central Tbilisi.
More than a thousand rescuers are examining the riverbed of Tbilisi’s main river, the Mtkvari, to find the three people who remain missing following the June 13 deadly flash flood.
Tbilisi Zoo is enjoying its first good news since the June 13 devastating flash flood, which killed 19 people and dozens of animals and destroyed much of the Zoo territory and nearby residences.