MAY 7 2014 (The Conway Bulletin) – Floods have heavily damaged parts of southern Tajikistan, along the border with Afghanistan, media reported. The Afghan side has been far worse effected with reports saying that a mudslide hit a village killing several hundred people. In Tajikistan, reports said that hundreds of families in remote villages had been cut off.
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(News report from Issue No. 184, published on May 14 2014)
APRIL 1 2014 (The Conway Bulletin) — A dam in central Kazakhstan burst, flooding downstream villages and killing five people. The accident underlines the need to improve Kazakhstan’s Soviet built infrastructure.
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(News report from Issue No. 178, published on April 2 2014)
MAY 12 2012 (The Conway Bulletin) – Five people died in Tbilisi after heavy rain caused a canal to overflow and flood a suburb of the town. The deaths highlight the poor housing, likened by some local media to slums, which some Tbilisi residents live in. News agencies had earlier reported that the Mtkvari River, that runs through central Tbilisi, had flooded but the authorities denied this.
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(News report from Issue No. 088, published on May 18 2012)