"In 48 settlements of five municipal districts of the Irkutsk region - Tulunsky, Chunsky, Nizhneudinsky, Taishetsky, Ziminsky - as a result of heavy rainfall and rising water levels in the rivers flooded 4042 houses, in which 9 thousand. . 269 children ", - reported in the department.

It is also noted that 41 socially significant objects and 4,106 personal plots were flooded.

Earlier it was reported that in the Irkutsk region as a result of flooding, three people died, 97 were hospitalized.