About 320 homes in the Caspian Sea coastal city of Derbent close to the Caucasus Mountains were flooded and seven bodies were found, the ministry said.
As a result of heavy rainfall eight streets in the city filled with mud and a state of emergency was declared.
In total there were 1,120 people in the area of flooding, including 270 children, according to the Emergency Situations Ministry.
357 rescue workers and emergency personnel people and 60 rescue vehicles are involved in rescue operations. Two Emergency Situations Ministry aircraft have been dispatched to the scene.
A flash flood killed 171 people in August in the Caucasus in the Krasnodar region town of Krymsk, where residents said they had no warning of the danger.
President Vladimir Putin visited the area and several local officials were sacked and detained. In Derbent, warnings were issued from loudspeakers at mosques and mounted on cars dispatched around the city in the mostly Muslim province, Ekho Moskvy radio reported.
Wednesday 10 October 2012
http://www.dnaindia.com/world/report_floods-kill-seven-in-russia-s-dagestan-region_1751016
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