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| Flood in Tbilisi (Image: Wikipedia) |
Georgian capital
Tbilisi was hit by the heavy rains on Sunday night, 14 June, causing a terrible
flood in several districts of the city and leaving serious damages.
The flood occurred
in the valley of the river Vere which is the right tributary of the Mtkvari
(Kura) River streaming through the center of Tbilisi. The Vere river runs
through Tbilisi Saburtalo and Vake neighborhoods and is characterized by the
periodic flash floods. The biggest floods occurred previously in 1960, 1963,
1972 and 1995, with the 1972 flood causing many fatalities and flooding Tbilisi
Zoo.
