KHABAROVSK, September 2 (RIA Novosti) - Over 133,000 children in Russia’s Far Eastern Khabarovsk Territory attended schools on Monday despite the declared state of emergency, which was caused by devastating floods, a local official said.
Over 50 towns and villages are flooded across the Khabarovsk Territory and some 1,800 residential buildings have been inundated.
“In all, some 133,200 schoolchildren across the territory took seats by their school-desks,” Pavel Sarychev, an aide to the governor of the Khabarovsk Territory, said.
The official added that only three schools out of 383 located in the Khabarovsk Territory did not open before the new school year.
Local meteorologists said on Monday that water levels of the Amur River near the city of Khabarovsk stood at 797 centimeters (26.1 feet) and may reach a peak level of some 830 centimeters (27.2 feet) by Thursday.
The forecasted level may surpass the earlier record registered mark of 642 centimeters by almost two meters, while the critical mark of the water level stands at six meters.
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