Heavy weather hits Georgia
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The Georgian Emergency Management Agency has received 17 signals of flooding due to heavy rain across the country.
Ground floors and plots of land were flooded in Georgia’s western regions of Samegrelo-Zemo Svaneti and Racha-Lechkhumi as rivers swelled over their banks.
The Interior Ministry said the rescue teams have immediately responded to the signals. Water has been pumped and people taken to the safer places.
Bad weather has also affected the eastern part of Georgia as large piles of stones and mud had earlier blocked the section of Mtskheta-Stepantsminda-Larsi road, connecting Georgia with Russia.
However, the road has been cleaned and one way traffic restored.
Three Israeli tourists lost in the historic province of Khevsureti in the mountains of east Georgia have been found safe.
Large piles of stones and mud have blocked the section of Mtskheta-Stepantsminda-Larsi road, connecting Georgia with Russia.
Nine foreign tourists who went missing in different parts of Georgia have been found safe.
Strong wind and heavy rain has crashed down on Georgia’s western Ozurgeti municipality, damaging buildings and causing problems for locals.
Several villages in the Kobuleti Municipality in the coastal Adjara region were drastically flooded. Small village rivers swell over their riverbeds, flooding nearby roads and sweeping away a bridge connecting two villages.