In the aftermath of Typhoon Khanun that battered Japan earlier this week, Russia’s Primorye region in the Far East incurred heavy flooding prompting the officials to evacuate as many as 2,000 people on Sunday, August 13. Heavy downpours wreaked havoc across dozens of villages as the typhoon made its way toward the Korean peninsula. The remnants of the storm, coupled with heavy rainfall that doubled the monthly average caused widespread flooding, reducing the residences to debris, according to Russian state media reports.
“More than 2,000 people, including 405 children, have been evacuated in Primorye,” Russia’s Emergency Situations Ministry said on Telegram.
4,300 residential buildings in 28 settlements affected
An estimated 4,300 residential buildings were reduced to rubble in at least 28 settlements. The access to several villages was cut off by floodwaters. An estimated 16 of the regions of the districts located in the Far East were affected by the torrential rains. Flash floods were caused in seven districts. At least three people were killed including a woman and two children, ages 10 and 12 as of Sunday.The storm brought by Khanun that barrelled towards the Korean peninsula also prompted evacuations of tens of thousands of scouts from their jamboree campsite in South Korea. Russia sent a task force for the cleanup of parts of the country’s Far East as homes were damaged and residential properties were destroyed by the storm. The worst affected cities were the Ussuriysk and Spassk-Dalny. In the Oktyabrsky municipal district, in the region of Primorye, where the port of Vladivostok is the administrative centre, several homes crumbled under the impact of heavy rain and storm.
