AFRICA
Storm Causes 81 Casualties in Moscow
On Monday, May 30, violent storms and strong winds slammed Moscow and the surrounding areas, killing 11 people and injuring 70 more. Most of these deaths and injuries were caused by falling trees, similar to the case of Cyclone Mora in Bangladesh.
According to Farid Ahmend and Euan McKirdy of CNN, “At least six people have died since the cyclone, dubbed Mora, made landfall early Tuesday morning between the cities of Chittagong and Cox’s Bazar and is heading north, authorities in the capital Dhaka said. Most of those killed were struck by fallen trees, Khalid Mahmood, a director at Disaster Management Department, told CNN.”
Toppling metal fences, garages, and even a construction crane, the scene looked as if it had come straight out of an apocalypse movie. About 3,500 trees were destroyed and both cars and train services were flipped and disrupted.
Evidently, flights around the airport were delayed until further notice due to inclement weather conditions. According to an emergency official, 60,000 people have been evacuated from Russia’s Stavropol region due to alerts of flooding.
As flights have been delayed in Bangladesh as well, it seems as if part of the world has been put on pause to wait out the havoc if the storms. It is quite an occurrence that two storms affected the two countries in drastic ways; many can only hope that casualties do not rise as the storms rage on.
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