Dozens evacuated from flood in eastern Dusheti municipality
The Emergency Management Service said earlier on Monday locals of the villages of Roshka, Korsha, Barisakho and Chargali had been evacuated in efforts that included helicopters of the border police. Photo: es.gov.ge
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Rescuers of Georgia’s Emergency Management Service have evacuated dozens of people from Dusheti municipality in the country’s east, after the locality was hit by heavy rain and flooding on Sunday.
The Service said earlier on Monday locals of the villages of Roshka, Korsha, Barisakho and Chargali had been evacuated in efforts that included helicopters of the border police.
Photo: Emergency Management Service/Facebook
Heavy rain hit 18 villages in the municipality, causing landslides and damaging sections of roads and a central highway.
Manana Narimanidze, the Mayor of Dusheti municipality, told local media outlet Netgazeti the central Zhinvali-Barisakho-Shatili road, connecting the villages of Georgia’s north-eastern mountainous Pshavi and Khevsureti regions, had been severely damaged by the rain.
Heavy rainfall has caused a temporary suspension of the Kazbegi customs checkpoint in Georgia’s north, with the state of emergency affecting the wider region, the Georgian Revenue Service announced on Monday.
Professionals from Georgia’s Emergency Management Service on Monday discovered the body of a tourist amid rescue works underway in the flood-hit north-eastern mountainous Pshavi province.
Traffic on the Mtskheta-Stepantsminda-Larsi Road connecting Georgia and Russia through the Caucasus mountains has resumed following the flooding of the Tergi River due to heavy rainfalls in the region, the Roads Department of Georgia announced on Monday.