The loss of life toll from avalanches that in latest days have hit Tajikistan, a small mountainous nation in Central Asia, has risen to 19, authorities mentioned Monday.
“From February 15 to February 19, 200 avalanches, seven landslides and 6 rockfalls have been recorded,” emergency providers mentioned in an announcement.
“19 of our residents misplaced their lives in avalanches.”
Tajikistan, the poorest of ex-Soviet nations in Central Asia, is weak to pure catastrophes.
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Virtually the entire victims lived in Higher Badakhshan (additionally known as Gorno Badakhshan), an autonomous area bordering Afghanistan, China and Kyrgyzstan that is surrounded by the Pamir Mountains, with peaks exceeding 7,000 meters.
The remoted area represents round half of Tajik territory, however is house to solely two p.c of the nation’s 9.5 million inhabitants.
President Emomali Rahmon, in energy for 3 many years, has acquired condolence messages from leaders of ex-Soviet nations, in addition to from Russia’s Vladimir Putin and Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi.
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