Water surge across broken dike blocked in Grozny

MOSCOW, August 28 (Itar-Tass) -- Emergency services blocked places of
water surges from the Sunzha River in Grozny on Saturday night. The
inundation was stopped in the area in Grozny's Oktysbrsky district, where
hundreds of houses were flooded after a river dike broke, the Russian
Emergencies Ministry's press service in the Chechen Republic reported on
Sunday.
The situation is under control. The emergency services that worked at
the site throughout the day blocked five places, across which the water
from the overflowing river had flooded houses in Grozny. The water is
blocked, the head of the Emergencies Ministry's department in Chechnya,
Ruslan Yakhyayev, said.
Nobody was hurt. Damage from the flood will be estimated after the
emergency work is completed.
The dike on the Sunzha River broke because of heavy rains and water
rise.
About 2,500 people were evacuated from the flooded zone.