At least four people have died in flash floods in southern Russia and one woman was killed in a wildfire in the Urals region, Russian officials and state media reported on Thursday, in this summer's latest severe weather events.
Local investigators said the bodies of four people had been recovered in and around Tuapse, a coastal town on the Black Sea.
The floods were caused by heavy rains on Wednesday which quickly overwhelmed storm drains. Regional governor Veniamin Kondratiev said that three times the average monthly rainfall had fallen in a single day, forcing the evacuation of campers in a nearby forest. The wildfire spread quickly on Wednesday due to dry and windy weather, burning 41 houses, the TASS news agency reported. Two more people were hospitalised with burns, it said.
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