Floods cause power cuts and transport chaos in Abkhazia

Roads were destroyed and houses flooded in Gagra and in villages near Pitsunda (Bichvinta), with the region also suffering damage to energy and water infrastructure after heavy rains on Friday night and Saturday morning. There was no electricity in Gagra region for almost all of Saturday.

The flooding also damaged 200 metres of railway tracks in Gagra region, bringing rail transport from Russia to a halt.