Flooding has damaged a bridge on Russia’s Trans-Siberian railway in its Far East, suspending traffic in the area, officials said on Friday, and President Vladimir Putin said full track repair would take five days.
Reuters: Russia’s Trans-Siberian railway blocked after flooding damages bridge
An aerial view shows a collapsed bridge over the Chornyi Cheremosh River in Kryvorivnya village, Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, destroyed by floods on June 23, 2020. Three people died and hundreds more have fled their homes in western Ukraine following the worst flooding in a decade, authorities said June 24. Floods caused by heavy rains that began this week hit 200 villages, damaging 5,000 homes and forcing the evacuation of 800 people, the interior ministry said. (AFP)
