This footage was filmed and produced 14 April 2024.

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This footage illustrates widespread flooding in Kazakhstan, Petropavlovsk region.

Kazakhstan evacuate over 100,000 people amid worst flooding in decades.

The deluge of melt water overwhelmed scores of settlements in the Ural Mountains, Siberia and areas of Kazakhstan close to rivers such as the Ural and Tobol, which local officials said had risen by metres (yards) in a matter of hours to the highest levels ever recorded.

Late on Tuesday, levels of the Ural River in Orenburg, a city of around 550,000, reached 9.31 metres (30.5 feet), exceeding the critical level of 9.30 metres, the regional governor said. He urged residents in areas at risk to evacuate.