Rescuers save five people in a raging river
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Georgia’s Emergency Management Service employees have managed to save five people in west Georgia who were standing in a precarious position on an artificial hillock that emerged after the flooding of the river Rioni.
Emergency groups from Kutaisi, Samtredia and Vani used water boats to rescue the people in a very complicated situation, in the village of Bashi, Samtredi.
The survivors are four men and one woman.
They have already been taken to a safe place.
Rescuers from the Emergency Management Agency of the Ministry of Internal Affairs have helped eight tourists from Poland, France and Ukraine, who got lost in the mountainous region of Dusheti area yesterday.
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An adventure enthusiast from the Czech Republic has been rescued after injuring himself while climbing a mountain in Georgia’s Stepantsminda region.
Akhmeteli subway access was flooded heavily while the emergency service has received calls about flooding in the basements of residential buildings in Gldani, Mukhiani and Digomi districts as well.
The Georgian Minister for Refugees Sozar Subari has stated that 21 houses and the local infrastructure have been heavily damaged in the village of Tchuberi in Mestia, on the second day of flooding of the river Nenskra.
In order to prevent severe consequences of flooding in the village of Tchuberi, Svaneti, the National Environmental Agency of Georgia has installed hydrometeorological measuring devices on the Nenskra River.
Georgia’s emergency management service employees have rescued 11 people from flooded Chakvistskali River in Mtirala national park in the west of the country.