Ukr rushes drinking water to flooded areas

AS OFFICIALS WRESTLE WITH IMPACT OF MAJOR DAM BREACH

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KHERSON: Authorities on Wednesday rushed supplies of drinking water to flooded areas from a collapsed dam in southern Ukraine as officials weighed where they might resettle residents who relied on the breached reservoir on the Dnieper River that forms part of the front line in the 15-month war.

More than 2,700 people have fled flooded areas on both the Russian and Ukrainian controlled sides of the river, according to official tallies, but it was not clear whether the true scale of the disaster had yet emerged in an area that was home to more than 60,000 people.