Severe Storms Lead To Flooding And Evacuations In Crimea

Local residents are helped out of a truck by rescuers during an emergency evacuation from a flooded street in the Crimean city of Yevpatoria on November 26.

A Russian-installed official in the region that Moscow annexed from Ukraine in 2014, Oleg Kryuchkov, said one person had been killed.



 

Rescuers take part in an emergency evacuation of local residents in Yevpatoria during the heavy rains.

"There is one fatality, according to preliminary information. It happened in the village of Morske, near Sudak. A man went to watch the waves and, unfortunately, died a tragic death," Kryuchkov said in a live program on the Russian state-run TV channel Rossia-24.

Residents are helped out of an evacuation truck during a heavy rainstorm.

Kryuchkov added that nearly half a million people were without power and heat on the peninsula.

 

Rescuers use a boat while evacuating residents from a flooded street in Yevpatoria.

Rescuers assist those whose homes were flooded.

A man and a dog are rescued from the flooding in Yevpatoria.

A woman reacts during the emergency evacuation.

Evacuations continued late into the early morning on November 26.

A resident walks amid the aftermath of flooding in Crimea's capital, Simferopol, on November 27.

A fallen tree blocks the sidewalk in front of a residential building in Simferopol.

 

A man carries a cage with a parrot while walking along a flooded street following a storm in Yevpatoria.

Russian-installed authorities on the Crimean Peninsula said that November 27 would be declared a nonworking day to allow residents and authorities to clean up after the weekend storms.

A Russian-installed official in Ukraine's Crimea peninsula said that one person had been killed and others injured as severe storms left more than half a million people without electricity and heat in the region that Moscow illegally annexed in 2014.