Seven people, most of them children, died in mudslides that hit Kyrgyzstan, authorities in the mountainous Central Asian country, a region on the front lines of climate change, announced Saturday.
According to the emergency response ministry, “seven people are dead in Nukat district”, among them five children, born between 2008 and 2016.
The same source clarified that at least 1,300 people on vacation in the affected area were hurriedly evacuated from there since last Friday night.
Yesterday's tragedy was announced some twenty-four hours after the death of a five-year-old child. in a similar disaster.
Central Asia, a region particularly vulnerable to climate change, is frequently hit by floods, landslides, avalanches and fires.
According to the United Nations, in Kyrgyzstan “rising temperatures are causing more frequent and more intense extreme (meteorological) phenomena, such as droughts, unpredictable conditions and an increasing number of natural disasters”.
< p data-block-key="anmru">The emergency response ministry this month announced an 86 percent increase in mudslides since March compared to the same period last year.
“There is not a single region of the country that has not faced mudslides,” according to authorities in Bishkek.
Source: First Topic
