Heavy rainfalls and stormy winds left up to 50,000 people without electricity in Russia’s North Caucasus republic of Chechnya, a spokesman for the local emergencies ministry said on Thursday.
Earlier a spokesman for the Nurenergo energy company that some 30,000 people were left without electricity on Wednesday afternoon in the central part of the republic.
“By 11:00 p.m. Moscow time (19:00 GMT) on Wednesday electricity supplies were suspended in more districts of Chechnya. In particular, in residential areas of the Shalinsky, Shatoi and Igum-Kalinsky districts as well as in some parts of the Chechnya’s capital of Grozny,” the ministry’s spokesman said.
He added that all facilities of social importance, particularly hospitals, were connected to the reserve sources of electricity supplies, while specialists are working to repair and restore the power lines.
