<p>The water level in the Tobol River around the city of Kurgan in <a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/tags/russia">Russia</a>'s southern Urals has exceeded the "dangerous level" mark, <em>RIA</em> state news agency reported on Wednesday, citing local authorities.</p><p>The river in the city, which is the administrative centre of the broader Kurgan region straddling the Tobol River near the border with <a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/tags/kazakhstan">Kazakhstan</a>, rose by 123 cms (four feet) in the 24 hours to Wednesday morning, reaching 865 cms (28 feet), <em>RIA</em> reported.</p><p>In the centre of Kurgan evacuation sirens have been blasting every two hours, <em>RIA</em> reported, urging resident to flee to safety. Officials said the river reaches a "danger" level once it crosses 850 cms (27 feet).</p><p>More than 660 residential houses were flooded in the region by Wednesday morning, <em>RIA</em> cited Emergency Ministry as saying.</p>.Hundreds of houses, plots flooded in Russia's Kurgan region.<p>Residents of 14 settlements in the Ishim district of the Tyumen region in southwestern <a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/tags/siberia">Siberia</a> were also being evacuated on Wednesday with threats coming from the rising level of the Ishim River, officials said.</p><p>Water levels in rivers in swathes of Russia's Ural and southwestern Siberian regions, as well as adjacent areas of Kazakhstan, were still rising rapidly, officials said.</p><p>The disaster has been caused by the fast melting of large snowfalls amid heavy rain, swelling the tributaries of several of Europe's largest rivers.</p><p>The total number of people evacuated from their home rose towards 2,00,000 late Tuesday after the governor of Russia's Tyumen region told residents of Ishim, a town of 65,000, that they should leave urgently.</p>
<p>The water level in the Tobol River around the city of Kurgan in <a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/tags/russia">Russia</a>'s southern Urals has exceeded the "dangerous level" mark, <em>RIA</em> state news agency reported on Wednesday, citing local authorities.</p><p>The river in the city, which is the administrative centre of the broader Kurgan region straddling the Tobol River near the border with <a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/tags/kazakhstan">Kazakhstan</a>, rose by 123 cms (four feet) in the 24 hours to Wednesday morning, reaching 865 cms (28 feet), <em>RIA</em> reported.</p><p>In the centre of Kurgan evacuation sirens have been blasting every two hours, <em>RIA</em> reported, urging resident to flee to safety. Officials said the river reaches a "danger" level once it crosses 850 cms (27 feet).</p><p>More than 660 residential houses were flooded in the region by Wednesday morning, <em>RIA</em> cited Emergency Ministry as saying.</p>.Hundreds of houses, plots flooded in Russia's Kurgan region.<p>Residents of 14 settlements in the Ishim district of the Tyumen region in southwestern <a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/tags/siberia">Siberia</a> were also being evacuated on Wednesday with threats coming from the rising level of the Ishim River, officials said.</p><p>Water levels in rivers in swathes of Russia's Ural and southwestern Siberian regions, as well as adjacent areas of Kazakhstan, were still rising rapidly, officials said.</p><p>The disaster has been caused by the fast melting of large snowfalls amid heavy rain, swelling the tributaries of several of Europe's largest rivers.</p><p>The total number of people evacuated from their home rose towards 2,00,000 late Tuesday after the governor of Russia's Tyumen region told residents of Ishim, a town of 65,000, that they should leave urgently.</p>