Flash floods in Southern Russia kill over 140 people
Looks like people drowned in their own beds. Water rose seven metres.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-18751198
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Flash floods caused by torrential rain have swept the southern Russian Krasnodar region, killing 144 people, officials say.
The floods, the worst there in living memory, struck at night, reportedly without warning.
TV pictures showed people scrambling onto their rooftops to escape.
President Vladimir Putin has flown over the region by helicopter and has had emergency talks with officials in the worst-hit town of Krymsk.
Most of those who died were in and around Krymsk, a town of 57,000 people. But nine deaths were reported in the Black Sea resort of Gelendzhik with a further two in the port town of Novorossiysk.
Russian TV showed thousands of houses in the region almost completely submerged and police said many of the victims were elderly people who had been asleep at the time.
"Our house was flooded to the ceiling," Krymsk pensioner Lidiya Polinina told the Agence France-Presse news agency.
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Makes me wonder if these people were warned. The deaths are now up to over 150 - mostly old people in their beds sleeping. 
